Saturday, August 6th, 2005, 4:50 am
Windows Command-Line Interface Delays
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Getting a higher level of expressiveness using a CLI
In a very recent item from Slashdot:
“According to Stephen Toulouse at Microsoft (
rel="nofollow"), because of the possible virus threat that targets Monad the shell will not be included in Windows Vista. CNet is reporting that, even though Monad is not to be included on Vista, it will be included on a major server operating system for servers from Microsoft. Codenamed Longhorn server, that edition is due out by 2007.”
The inclusion of a CLI is primarily aimed at programmers, system administrators and Web hosts who require versatile remote access. I have some suspicion that Monad will introduce users to the power of the command-line1, who will in turn realise that they can get it all under Linux without the high costs which Windows entails. In the past few days I converted about 3 people from Windows to Linux, which results in a rewarding feeling. It is not a religious war, but one of freedom. Free as in free beer. Free as in freedom.
1 The “front line”, not MS-DOS, but bash et al. rather.
