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posted by martyb on Monday April 08 2019, @11:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the Powers-Hell? dept.

Microsoft Announces PowerShell 7

Microsoft has just announced PowerShell 7, a new major release that comes only a few days after the company originally introduced version 6.2

And while it naturally makes more sense for the company to roll out PowerShell 6.3 rather than a whole new version 7.0, the company explains in a blog post that it's all as part of the efforts to align the versions of all platforms.

Steve Lee, Principal Software Engineer Manager, PowerShell, explains that Microsoft noticed a growing usage pattern on Linux, but not on Windows.

"Windows usage has not been growing as significantly, surprising given that PowerShell was popularized on the Windows platform," Lee explains. [...] The next version of PowerShell will thus be available on Windows, Linux, and macOS, and the company explains it'll be available with LTS (Long Term Servicing) and non-LTS plans.

Also at ZDNet.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:55AM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday April 09 2019, @01:55AM (#826503) Journal

    That idea surely must have occurred to the skinwalkers at MS, and they took the gamble anyway. They're evil, not stupid...so unless their egos are getting in the way and they're truly blind, I can only assume they have good reason to believe things won't turn out that way.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @03:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @03:21AM (#826533)

    That idea surely must have occurred to the skinwalkers at MS, and they took the gamble anyway. They're evil, not stupid...so unless their egos are getting in the way and they're truly blind, I can only assume they have good reason to believe things won't turn out that way.

    Having worked for Microsoft for several years back at the turn of the century, I can tell you that most MS people are not evil. Greedy, definitely. Shortsighted, most certainly. And there are those who are sociopathic, many of whom have risen through the ranks for just that reason.

    In this case, customers really didn't give them much choice. Just as it's been in their cloud business. Do you really think they'd provide Linux as part of their PaaS offerings if they could helpit? Paying customers, especially the big ones, can get vendors like Microsoft to do all sorts of things that hurts their long-term, because they're focused on meeting their quarterly sales goals. This distorts decision making and often causes folks to act stupidly.

    I suggest applying Hanlon's Razor [wikipedia.org] more liberally.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @07:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @07:02PM (#827573)

    they don't have a choice, obviously.