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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:So Apple IS faster.... by davidstrauss · · Score: 0, Troll
    They change their entire platforms over 2 years, and MS will spend 3-5 years changing the default shell?

    Yeah, because my ability to run Windows 95 applications on XP is vastly inferior to Linux's inability to run a single modern application across current distros without lots of modification or testing.

  2. Re:vaporware by drsmithy · · Score: 0, Troll
    A good open source distro can fit the entire operating system and more into that!

    And is still bloated - I can fit DOS onto a 360k floppy.