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Windows Powershell

1st March 2007

The Windows command has always been the poor relation of its UNIX equivalent and it seems that Microsoft released PowerShell in order to remedy this. It seems to offer scripting possibilities beyond what is already available in Windows and is a free download for XP and Vista. I haven’t got to exploring its potential yet but it is on the to do list.

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