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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: 3, Interesting) by canopic jug on Tuesday April 09 2019, @08:22AM

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 09 2019, @08:22AM (#826614) Journal

    What benefit could Microsofts "It's a trap" PowerShell provide?

    The benefits are to M$, not to system administrators or others. There have been ports of zsh and tcsh for around 20 years if not longer. So if it were just a matter of having a scripting language to help with system administration, the obvious choice would be to pull one of those off the shelf and roll it out in the Next Version. But since M$ wouldn't be able to futher its lock-in with either one, both will be ignored. The hard part for M$ is that it is well known that shell scripting is powerful, useful, and even essential to running large numbers of servers which is the market they are clutching at now. The reason that is the hard part, is that M$ has spend many years and lots of money disparraging the shell and now has to somehow turn that around without losing even more credibility among its fan base. The way to do that is to reinvent a square wheel^W^Wtheir own shell.

    Imagine, if standard M$ resellers and Windows monkeys were familiar with zsh or tcsh, then they would not only be immune to the marketeering M$ has been carrying out against the shell, they would also make them less likely to not suggest or even fight an upgrade to FreeBSD or GNU/Linux, since key familiar tools would be there already.

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