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Microsoft's new CLI

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everybody-loves-the-cli dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Months ago a story ran regarding a job advert at Microsoft for a developer role to lead the work on a new generation of command line interface. It has now been disclosed at the PDC and its name is MSH (Microsoft SHell), codenamed MONAD. Here is the best description so far."

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  1. Very Nice by DeadSea · · Score: 1, Troll
    A new command line for Windows will be great for anybody that wants to do a bit of scripting on Windows.

    The problem is that .msh files will be exectuted by default from the mail reader, the web browser, and the media player. Virus writers will be the first people adopt the scripts, and be the only ones to use them because Microsoft won't advertise, support, document, or otherwise promote the technology. As a result, administrators will have to find a way to turn of .msh scripting and nobody will be able to use it anyway.

    1. Re:Very Nice by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 0, Troll

      Oh goody. Now they don't have to double click to set the virus off...

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    2. Re:Very Nice by vmfedor · · Score: 0, Troll

      This is a valid point but obviously not modded up in any way because unless you're actually BASHING Microsoft (or 'supporting' Linux in some way) nobody around here cares.

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  2. Wasnt this done before? by adeyadey · · Score: 0, Troll

    With something called DOS..

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