MS finally releases a video of Monad (unix style console for windows) video!
MS finally releases a video of Monad (unix style console for windows) video!I've been hearing about Monad (aka Windows Longhorn Shell aka WSH) for months but I have yet to see it. Now that I have, I'm totally in love. It's all the power of a mature Unix shell, but in Windows, and Microsoft made it. Plus it gives you direct access into the registry and Active Directory. Before you paranoid freaks scream security hole, pleases remember this is simply a command interface into the access you already have. And obviously using the ACLs & permissions if you didn't have access in the GUI to do something, you don't have it here either. So now, it WILL NOT open new exploits or hacks.
Coming from a Solaris certified background (an OS I have grown to dislike), I'm so glad Microsoft has finally realized a command shell isn't a bad thing!
You can check out the video (47megs download or stream) at http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=25923
And here's a link to every decent article/post about Monad http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/stefandemetz/archive/2004/04/20/11794.aspx