Microsoft finally renamed Monad to PowerShell. I’m really enthousiastic about this. This will fill the gap between Windows and other Unix oses.

So you have a shell with ls, cat and all those commands you use to mistype on cmd.exe. But it’s much more powerfull : it has a contextual pipe (read XML as |.

So building a system on simple commands was great. But using text only for communication between those commands (components) wasn’t enough.

PowerShell brought a new pipe symbol. You can get-process | where {$_.name -eq 'agl'}. That mean you can specify the stucture you expect and treat it.

Further more, PowerShell has also signing facilities to avoid troan and other escalation.

Today I just wonder if I can use a portable version (USB key). I’ve already commited to use it.