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A Guided Tour of the Microsoft Command Shell

Posted by Zonk on from the its-cool-to-have-features dept.

jpkunst writes "Ryan Paul at Ars Technica provides an in-depth, 13 page review of the new Microsoft Command Shell (Monad). (The beta release can be downloaded for free from Microsoft.) From the conclusion: 'Despite my initial skepticism, I am deeply impressed with MSH technology, and I am legitimately excited about the future of the Windows command line.'"

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  1. Re:Some Wise Man Said by HeroreV · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And those who do not understand how to

    post on Slashdot are condemned to posts<br>
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  2. Waiting for the gpl'd clone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Err, on second thought, Monad sounds better.

  3. Re:Hypothetical for the Linux Crew by orasio · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Well, for me, it's not ethical to use proprietary software.
    The fact that mswindows is crap is just one issue.
    That helped me look for other alternatives, and discover free software, long ago.

    Technical issues are not everything. Ethics are important. I don't want to use msoffice and be the tool of someone else total control delirium. I don't trust Microsoft, either, and I believe they have a negative impact in the industry I work for, specially in South America, where I live. I wouldn't want to support them, ever. The fact that they make good software by some specific metric doesn't justify using it, in the big picture.

  4. Re:The true meaning of "msh" by The_Quinn · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    1. MS implements something new.

    2. MS haters berate it.

    3. People are productive with it.

    4. An OSS clone appears.

    5. OSS advocates claim nothing new was created - the technology existed all along and MS "stole" the effort of others.

    6. Rinse & Repeat.

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    Mine is Good
  5. Re:Quick! Open Source Monkeys Fly by tomhudson · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just do : ls -l | sort | head -10 | tr -s " " "\t" > dir.txt; gnumeric dir.txt & After all, if you're going to be manipulating it in a spreadsheet, you probably want to save it in a file somewhere anyway, right?
    Kick in the *NIX fanboi defense reflex: Offer a half-baked parallel and insist that any deficiencies are things you didn't need or shouldn't be doing in the first place.
    You're just jealous because we were able to do it decades ago, with almost no ram or cpu, and you'll still need a quarter-gig (gotta have .NET around or it won't work). You know something? MSH is a fucked up abortion that should crawl back into Balmer's ass because its certainly not going to bury the *NIXes.