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 ...

Sorry Cato, companies do not reward courage PowerShell inventor Jeffrey Snover has aired some grievances about how his indispensable tool once got him demoted.

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).

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 ...

But PowerShell for Linux goes a long way beyond that. “PowerShell is a framework that management products build on top of,” Snover points out.

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.

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 ...