The "father of PowerShell," Jeffrey Snover, announced this week that he'll be leaving Microsoft on July 1. Snover currently serves as the chief technology officer for workplace transformation at ...

PowerShell inventor Jeffrey Snover has aired some grievances about how his indispensable tool once got him demoted. PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management program from ...

Given that Jeffrey Snover, a Microsoft Technical Fellow had invented PowerShell platform in 2002, yet it took Microsoft over 14 years to bring PowerShell to Open source platform remains a big ...

The alpha release of PowerShell for Linux is available on the GitHub page; you can test it on Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS. The source of PowerShell is also available on GitHub.

Over time we’ll product more native Linux commandlets to support the Linux equivalents,” he explained. The PowerShell code that’s available on GitHub is an alpha version, Snover says.

With PowerShell, Microsoft now gives its customers “a single management stack on any client they like,” Snover added (assuming the clients you like are Windows, OS X and Linux, of course).

Microsoft originally announced PowerShell 2.0 at the end of 2008, when the chief architect at the time, Jeffrey Snover, announced its integration into Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2 and Windows Server ...