Editor’s note: After this article was published, Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that cmd.exe will not be going away after all. Read Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ follow-up column. My very first ...

To know Microsoft's PowerShell is to love it. That's how most readers feel -- it's just tough getting to that point. PowerShell 1.0, formerly code-named "Monad" and later "MSH," is Microsoft's new ...