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Next-gen Windows Command Line Shell Now in Beta

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the shelling-out-for-a-new-command-line dept.

Suddenly_Dead writes "Microsoft's new command line shell, MSH or Monad, has entered the beta phase. Channel9 Wiki has information on how to download this (complete with Guest ID), and other related info."

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  1. whoosh! by lheal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That was the sound of the point, flying past Microsoft's Collective brain.

    The Unix shell is the implementation of the Unix philosophy of small parts working together. It's the antithsesis of Windows' philosophy of providing everything possible through DLLs distributed with the OS.

    For a shell to be useful, you need lots of little tools. Otherwise you're just trying to provide an isomorphism to the GUI, with command line switches and arguments taking the place of check boxes.

    On the other hand, I suppose it's better than nothing.

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    Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
  2. Re: No Thanks by lazy_arabica · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why do the unix zealots always dismiss ANY attempt to make the user experience more high-level / semantic-oriented (especially if it comes from Microsoft) ? I am a Unix-user, but I'm also very interested in MSH, some of its features sound really innovative and powerful. I'll probably stick with bash too though, until Unix becomes deprecated (because I don't think it will ever evolve, since so many people, like you, think the perfection has been invented 30 years ago.)

  3. Re:That's all well and good by CaroKann · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A windows shell, without the various limitations of the DOS shell, would be very useful in more ways than I can count. For example, DOS .bat files are still used a lot, especially in cases where you want to run an application, like a Java based program, with it's own system environment setup.

    Lots of people are "bashing" this up agianst various Unix shells, but what does it matter? Windows needs something like this, period.

  4. Re:First impressions by Des+Herriott · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "get-process" is far more intuitive than "ps"

    No, it is not. Neither is intuitive - a complete newcomer would have no chance of guessing either command. Both must be learned. Given that, I'll take the 2-character command over the 11-character command any day.