[aklug] Re: PowerShell

That's funny, as I have co-workers right now who have "Systems
Administrator" as a title and say the same thing about the command line.
Not about saving money.

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Christopher Howard <
christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:

> On 10/08/2012 09:52 PM, Damien Hull wrote:
> > For those that don't know, Microsoft is switching their CLI to
> > PowerShell. It works like a unix shell. Here's a video that I thought
> > was interesting.
> >
> > http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2010/WSV301
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> Quite a gamble, I'd say, introducing Windows users to a real shell
> environment, i.e., allowing them to do practical work without a Windows
> GUI. If they aren't careful, a few of them might wake up one day and
> realize, "Wow, I can do all this exact same stuff on a Linux or BSD
> server, without paying per-connection license fees!"
>
> Kind of funny... I remember Computer Science students back in college
> who said they preferred Windows because "the whole command-line thing"
> didn't really work for them.
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