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 ...

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 ...

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).