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We were just today discussing it, so I went on a little search but found nothing, zip, nada.
What is the future of ms's cmd shell? Do they intend to replace it completely with powershell in the future versions of windows, or just ship powershell as a parallel alternative ?
Does anyone have any links, articles, ... whatever regarding the above mentioned, cause I haven't been able to mind ms's stand regarding.
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The Windows Cmd / Command-Line shell is NOT being removed from Windows in the near or distant future! The Cmd shell remains an essential part of Windows, and is used daily by millions of businesses, developers, and IT Pro's around the world.
Emphatically, yes. Not only does it give you access to all of the system resources, but the power of the shell, a simple programming language you can use to automate tasks that are tedious to do manually. That's just a start.
greater control of an OS or application; faster management of many operating systems; ability to store scripts to automate regular tasks; basic command-line interface knowledge to help with troubleshooting, such as network connection issues.
The latest build of Windows 7 has the two shells separately. I believe they won't replace the good-ol' cmd.exe. They need it mainly for compatibility reasons. A lot of programs call cmd /c, and replicating the exact same mechanism for powershell would be a duplication of effort. So, I suppose the cmd.exe remains.
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cmd.exe is not going anywhere (it's far too widely used).
However, I don't think you'll be seeing any enhancements to it (not that they've been burning through them anyway).
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