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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.
Previously: MS Releases Powershell SDC - to Manage Config for.... Linux
Powershell for Linux
Your wget (and curl) is Broken and Should DIE, GitHubbers Tell Microsoft
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:52PM (2 children)
I call BS on this.
I am definitely not a .net or MS gal - Yes, Debian stole my heart of geek. I do have to admin Windows boxes. I do have to patch and maintain and support MS products inc Exchange SharePoint and Skype. You don't need to know .net to use PowerShell. It is useful to know how .net works and what's in it. For most things use the functions available and look up what you need when you need it.
I've coded in perl bash py CSH Java (yes yes) DOS batch and frankly after using PowerShell for several years I miss it when using Ubuntu or redhat. No, the Linux version of powershell is not up to scratch. Nice try though.
If not PowerShell then ... What? C#? Ask Microsoft to install python by default on all Windows machines? Install perl everywhere? Do it all in .NET?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @07:06PM (1 child)
"I do have to admin Windows boxes. I do have to patch and maintain and support MS products inc Exchange SharePoint and Skype."
no. you don't "have to" do anything. have some self respect instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @11:32AM
Sure.I can starve.