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Windows to Have Better CLI

Posted by Zonk on from the stephenson's-going-to-have-to-annotate-the-article-again dept.

MickyJ writes "The command line interface to the Windows Server OS will be changed to the new Monad Shell (MSH), in a phased implementation to take place over the next three to five years. 'It will exceed what has been delivered in Linux and Unix for many years', so says Bob Muglia, a Senior VP at Microsoft." More from the Tom's Hardware article: "The language in Muglia's comment offers the first clear indication that WMI may be yet one more component being left behind, as Microsoft moves away from portions of Windows architecture that have historically been vulnerable to malicious attack."

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  1. Re:I refuse to use it! by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Things like that are novelties that keep people interesting in writing it. Transparent shells have little actual use [and waste resources] but look cool and give you braging rights.

    Tom

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  2. Re:Way to go! by Ruphuz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > 1. Write complex management interface
    > 2. Shore up security holes over many years of
    > use and testing
    > 3. Ditch for new immature code
    > 4. ?
    > 5. Profit!

    4. Goto 2

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  3. It already has one. It is called cygwin. by jvj1 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It already has one. It is called cygwin.