Microsoft Releases A New Monad Command Shell Beta

Posted by timothy on Monday September 20, 2004 @02:32PM from the sneer-or-consider dept.

Watercooler Warrior writes "Slashdot originally broke the news that a new Microsoft command shell was in the works when a reader noticed a suspicious job posting by Microsoft India. Today Microsoft released the first really usable version of the shell (codenamed Monad) to beta testers - and anyone who carefully reads the WinHEC slides about Monad will find how to join the beta and get a peek at it. The shell looks like a bunch of old-school Unix and Perl hackers were given free rein to do what they wanted with the .NET framework, and from what is known about the backgrounds of the Monad developers this is probably pretty close to the truth."

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hm i love names that rhyme.,. by josepha48 · 2004-09-20 15:05 · Score: 0, Troll

.. with human body parts.. monad.. go---.. ;-0

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Re:It's about time by bastardsquadmuzz · 2004-09-20 18:50 · Score: 0, Troll

Of course, as soon as they released "Bash for Windows" half the Slashdot community would throw up their arms in disgust, accuse MS of stealing software without giving anything back and declare they open up the source code to the entire Windows codebase under the GPL. Then when they realise no-one's listening they'll get back to playing Half Life on their mum's Windows machine.

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