Windows PowerShell 1.0 released

Earlier this week Microsoft released the final version of Windows PowerShell 1.0. PowerShell, formerly known as Monad, is a powerful text-based command shell for Windows, basically the command prompt on steroids. There's a wealth of information at Microsoft's TechNet web site as well as the official PowerShell blog.

Microsoft is trying hard to push PowerShell adoption, however, with a script repository and a scripting sweepstakes in which 12 Xbox 360s are being handed out.