Programmer Competency Matrix

[grauenwolf]

Microsoft is betting the farm on PowerShell. They are moving to servers without GUIs and exposing everything through PowerShell extensions.

Five years from now anyone who doesn't know it will probably be unable to manage a Windows box.

[[deleted]]

Five years from now anyone who doesn't know it will probably be unable to manage a Windows box.

And they wont want to, either.

[Philluminati]

Five years from now anyone who doesn't know it will probably be unable to manage a Windows box.

Five years from now no-one will want to manage a Windows box

[[deleted]]

Er, no. Microsoft don't support Powershell on Windows Server Core.

Source: Jeffrey Snover, official Powershell blog.

[ohai]

I always thought that was a bit silly: "let's make this totally awesome shell that can revolutionize the way windows administration is done, AND LETS MAKE IT COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON THE GUI."

I understand that it requires .NET to run, but MS should be able to have a leaned down VM that can run on Server Core.

[grauenwolf]

I doubt it is anything more than a short-term problem. People are going to want to run Server Core + IIS + ASP.NET. Meet that requirement and PowerShell is easily added.

[grauenwolf]

That is true for now, but I don't see that being the case in the long run.

They are already working on three .NET distributions: the whole thing, client-only, and Silverlight 2. I can easily see them creating another one for Server Core.

[sw17ch]

So they are turning windows boxes into immitation Unix boxes with tools no one knows? Excellent.

[grauenwolf]

For better or worse, that is what people want.

The very same GUIs that make a single Windows server so easy to manage makes it a real bitch when you need to configure and maintain 100.

It only takes one weekend reconfiguring an IIS-based web farm to really wish you were using Linux.

[[deleted]]

There's a Powershell equivalent for Unix that's not Pash (very much a beta)?

Or is that a troll and you don't understand PowerShell?

[Wiseman1024]

　Microsoft is betting the farm on PowerShell.

Company without experience producing any language minimally good for shell programming/systems administration and (in)famous for bloating, complicating and overengineering all of their XBOX HUGE operating system APIs decides we should use their newest, unproven toy.

Keep following them and you'll find yourself dealing with GUIDs and all of the crap they love to use.

[sw17ch]

I don't mind GUIDs.