Windows to Have Better CLI 742
MickyJ writes "The command line interface to the Windows Server OS will be changed to the new Monad Shell (MSH), in a phased implementation to take place over the next three to five years. 'It will exceed what has been delivered in Linux and Unix for many years', so says Bob Muglia, a Senior VP at Microsoft." More from the Tom's Hardware article: "The language in Muglia's comment offers the first clear indication that WMI may be yet one more component being left behind, as Microsoft moves away from portions of Windows architecture that have historically been vulnerable to malicious attack."
Balls? (Score:5, Funny)
Gr@ve_Rose
Way to go! (Score:5, Funny)
1. Write complex management interface
2. Shore up security holes over many years of use and testing
3. Ditch for new immature code
4. ?
5. Profit!
If they're ditching WMI it *won't* be for security reasons.
Monad? Rather than... (Score:5, Funny)
Next Slashdot Headline (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft Pushes Back Longhorn Until 2008 Over New CLI and Changing of "My"
vaporware (Score:5, Funny)
"...will exceed what has been delivered in Linux and Unix for many years. It will take three to five years to fully develop and deliver."
Somehow I'm not too worried.
So Apple IS faster.... (Score:5, Funny)
Windows already has an excellent CLI (Score:5, Funny)
...you just gotta go download it from here. [cygwin.com]
I refuse to use it! (Score:5, Funny)
I've already got one, you see...? (Score:2, Funny)
Can you say bash from cygwin?!? thought you could
Re:Monad .. Gonad (Score:2, Funny)
MS-DOS is back (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I refuse to use it! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Monad .. Gonad (Score:2, Funny)
Who cares? MSH will be pronounced as "mash" and this will develop a related song for sysadmins to sing on Haloween:
I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my server from his slab began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise
He did the MSH
He did the Microsoft MSH
The Microsoft MSH
It was a server smash
He did the MSH
It caught on in a flash
He did the MSH
He did the Microsoft MSH
Catchy, no?
Re:Balls? (Score:5, Funny)
Yep.. gonads...
GNU/Gonads...
gonads.org??
Re:Better late than .... (Score:5, Funny)
The year is 1973. Apple Computations Inc. have just announced that they are switching to the cutting-edge Zilog Z80 architecture for their range of low-cost pocket calculators; Sony Industrial Consumer Electronics are making use of an innovative new Integrated Circuit for their Alpha-Max-3 video system which contains at least five separate transistors; the Duke Nukem Forever board-game has been given a favourable reception at the Entertaining Entertainment Exposition at the Crystal Palace, London, and now Micro-Soft-Ware are designing their new, BASIC-derived timesharing shell for competing against the burgeoning MULTICS.
Well, you did ask...
Re:Let the jokes begin! (Score:0, Funny)
sed 's/m/g'
Thought so
Re:Next Slashdot Headline (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I refuse to use it! (Score:1, Funny)
C-Shell perhaps. . . . . (See Shell)
(I'll get me coat)
Re:Windows already has an excellent CLI (Score:4, Funny)
Y
Re:Next Slashdot Headline (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Monad .. Gonad (Score:3, Funny)
Here's a screenshot! (Score:4, Funny)
(courtesy of mopslik [slashdot.org]. Original post [slashdot.org].
Re:I refuse to use it! (Score:3, Funny)
I've got an infinite number of transparent terminals up on the desktop already. Each time I start one I can't find the damn close icon to shut it down...
Re:Monad .. Gonad (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Balls? (Score:3, Funny)
GONADS Ovaries Nads Are Different Sexualorgans
Re:It's about time (Score:3, Funny)
DOS:
cd C:\PROGRA~1
2k+ cmd.exe:
cd C:\Program Files
smelling like DOS,
Which is why you no longer have a true DOS enviroment... in case you haven't noticed, 2000 on up no longer uses DOS as it's initial bootloader. It's gone, and it's been gone for a bit.
and quacking like DOS.
Can't help you there, I'm still getting this weird error about not finding '/dev/hda' in this script I made... it doesn't seem to like "echo 000000000000 >
In literally every aspect, though, DOS has been gone for a very, very long time.
Re:It's about time (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Better late than .... (Score:4, Funny)
This requires RED security clearance.
What is RED security clearance and how do I get it?
Attention, User, you have requested information on a clearance level you are not authorized to know about. Please press the red button to complete your termination. Disobedience is cause for termination. Have a nice day.
Re:Balls? (Score:2, Funny)
It's great (Score:3, Funny)
echo $PATH
Monad:
Private Sub echo1_CLI(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles echo1.CLI
Try
AddHandler EchoCL1.PrintLine, AddressOf Me.PrintCL1_PrintLine
PrintLine1.Print(Sys.Init.Windows.PATH)
Catch ex As Exception
Message.Show("An error occurred while printing PATH ", _
ex.ToString())
End Try