Microsoft Next Generation Shell

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday December 29, 2002 @01:49AM from the when-command.com-just-doesn't-cut-it-any-more dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I found this while searching for Perl Jobs in India: "The Microsoft Next Generation Shell Team is designing and developing a new command line scripting environment from the ground up. The new shell and utilities, based on the .NET Frameworks, will provide a very rich object-based mechanism for managing system properties. To be delivered in the next release of Windows, it will include the attributes of competitors' shells (e.g. aliases, job control, command substitution, pipelines, regular expressions, transparent remote execution) plus rich features based on Windows and .NET (e.g. command discovery via .NET reflection API's, object-based properties/methods, 1:many server scripting, pervasive auto-complete)."

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Re:sorry, but this won't help Windows either by NineNine · 2002-12-29 02:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Very funny. XP can be fairly stable and secure--if you dedicate machines to individual tasks and disable most multiuser features. Running Apache and ssh helps, too. But, compared to UNIX and Linux, XP's stability and security are still ridiculously poor. And that's not because lacks features, it's because it has too many features.

I wasn't even going to argue this because I thought that any competent Windows admin could make any W2K machine as stable as any other *nix. And you know what, I'm still not gonna argue this. If you can't make a Windows box stable, well, no offense, but that's your problem.