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Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell
What if you had to fight against your company's culture to bring a revolutionary tool to life? Meet Jeffrey Snover, the Microsoft architect behind PowerShell, a command tool that transformed Windows system administration. Initially met with skepticism, Snover's idea faced resistance from a company that favored graphical interfaces. Snover's journey began with a simple mission: to make Windows as command-line... […]
PowerShell, if you’re not familiar, was groundbreaking, not only influencing other CLIs but enabling Microsoft’s move to the cloud, and maybe most importantly, cultivating a vast network of skilled Windows system administrators. Adam: The goal was clear to establish Microsoft NT based operating systems in data centers and to outcompete Unix vendors like Sun and IBM and HP. Adam: At this point, the capabilities of PowerShell were expanding, and although there was a big bump in the road still coming, the Shell team was very busy building things out.
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