PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language created at Microsoft, designed by Jeffrey Snover and first known under the code name Monad. Unlike traditional shells that pass text between commands, it passes structured .NET objects, which makes it easier to filter and combine the output of commands called cmdlets. Windows PowerShell 1.0 was released in November 2006 for Windows XP, Server 2003 and Vista, and it later became a standard tool for system administration. In 2016 Microsoft released it as open-source software for Linux and macOS as well, and the cross-platform version is now called simply PowerShell.
Before and after
- from 1 October 2006 to 22 September 2013Premiere of Dexter
- 4 October 2006Founding of WikiLeaks
- 10 October 2006Launch of VK
- November 2006Discovery of TrES-2b
- 14 November 2006Creation of PowerShell
- December 2006The Yangtze river dolphin is declared functionally extinct
- 10 December 2006Release of Wikivoyage
- 11 December 2006Mexican drug war
- 13 December 2006Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 1971Email
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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