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Around 2005, PowerShell was born.

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This is Microsoft's offering for an enterprise management and automation tool.

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PowerShell's original code name was Monad.

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In fact, for a while, the associated file extension was msh.

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And what made PowerShell different was that it was based on the .NET Framework,

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which at the time drove everything at Microsoft. Because of this,

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PowerShell is an object‑oriented, or object‑centered language.

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Instead of parsing text or manipulating output,

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PowerShell commands work with objects in a pipeline.

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And once you buy into this paradigm,

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you'll realize how easy PowerShell is to learn and use.

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PowerShell finally gave IT pros a standardized and easy‑to‑use

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management tool that could be used interactively at a command prompt.

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You type a command, and something happens.

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But PowerShell is also an easy‑to‑learn scripting language.

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Trust me.

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As someone who once wrote a reference manual on Windows Script

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Host and VBScript, PowerShell is super easy.

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If you can run a command or two at a prompt, you can create a script.

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Here's the timeline of how we got to PowerShell and

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how PowerShell quickly matured.

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PowerShell 1.0 is a far cry from where we are today,

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but with each release Microsoft made it better.

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And what you notice now is that PowerShell development is

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accelerating. Even after all these years, Microsoft is making huge

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investments into PowerShell, primarily because it plays a huge role

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in their cloud‑focused business.

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If you kept thinking Microsoft would drop

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PowerShell and move onto something else, I think you'll be waiting a long time.