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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. fnar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    narber

  2. 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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  3. What a coincidence by Tim+C · · Score: -1, Troll

    I was chatting with a friend on ICQ only this morning about OSX, and how cool it looks, and how tempting buying an Apple machine would be, if only we had the money.

    Then I remarked that Longhorn could well also bring some very good stuff - after all, Win2k and XP are pretty-much rock solid as far as desktop expectations and demands go, and Longhorn's 2006 shipping date gives MS plenty of time to learn from OSX's example.

    Looks like maybe I was right.

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

    With something called DOS..

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  5. In other words... by Bendebecker · · Score: -1, Troll

    Microsoft has just created a new CLI that's sort of good. That must have been real difficult considering CLI's have been around since the fifties! So they created one that is almost as good as the ones written back in the 60's. In the words of Ben Stien: Wow.

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  6. Re:here, I'll give you a scale... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Girls"... does that have somethign to do with GNU?