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Microsoft Next Generation Shell

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Two observations: by TrebleJunkie · · Score: 1, Troll

    1. We've now come full circle back to the shell.

    2. If windows was insecure WITHOUT a shell, imagine the nightmare it's going to be NOW.

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    Ed R.Zahurak

    You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.

  2. MODERATORS!!! by Anti-HanzoSan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find all comments posted by HanzoSan, AND MODERATE THEM DOWN TO THE SEVENTH CIRCLE OF HELL!

  3. Re:you are absolutely right by rseuhs · · Score: 2, Troll
    Well if your mother hangs around with IBM-people and helps you get the one single contract your whole product palette is built on, I would call that "tremendous stroke of luck".

    Without IBM licensing DOS, Microsoft would be just another software company.

  4. Why does this sound like an AD? by h00pla · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Anonymous poster is obviously some Microsoft employee no doubt

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  5. dont understand by shaunbaker · · Score: 0, Troll

    i just dont understand why the slashdot crowd is under the delusion that the linux kernal is somehow any better (its worse) than the win2k/xp kernel. the security object model of win2k/xp is vastly superior to the ancient and useless global/owner/group method. the linux cli is hardly as powerful as what this microsoft prop calls for. and while win2k/xp may not be truely microkernal, its actual design is superior. Windows problems revolve around one thing, applications running at too high of a privledge. this came because windows was originally designed without pervasive networking ideas. once applications can run with proper levels of control (the framework is already there) then we will be laughing at linux/unix security and inflexability as the win2k/nit model is superior. quit bashing and open up a undergraduate text book on operating systems to see the proof.