As a developer and technical lead for a large New York financial services company, Scott Weinstein initially tinkered with a beta version of Microsoft's new Windows PowerShell command-line interface ...

The first software that I was actually paid to develop was a 2-page shell script that prompted the user for a dozen or so pieces of information, before launching a set of cooperating processes. Those ...

Microsoft just open-sourced PowerShell, making it available for both Linux and Mac. The command-line shell and scripting platform is just the latest open-source friendly software from Microsoft. All ...