In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...

What is PowerShell? Microsoft PowerShell is a powerful administrative tool that can help you automate tasks for your computer and network.

I'd say one of the greatest obstacles to Windows PowerShell adoption is the belief that you have to learn how to use a command line. I've come across more than one IT pro in my career -- including a ...

Microsoft Windows PowerShell has been a long time coming. Windows has never enjoyed the powerful shell scripting environments that its Unix rivals have long included. That’s changed now with the ...

One of the last vestiges of the old MS-DOS days, the Command Prompt, is looking like an endangered species. The latest Windows 10 preview build puts the Windows PowerShell, first introduced on Windows ...

Windows 8.1 brought a few changes to the handy Win+X menu, including a new Shut Down option and the addition of PowerShell shortcuts. If you're more of a command prompt user, though, you can bring the ...

On Jan. 17, 2018, Microsoft's Scott Hanselman asked Visual Studio developers if they would like a PowerShell prompt with pre-set PATH and Environment variables baked right into the IDE. They said yes.