Microsoft today made its PowerShell scripting linguistic communication in addition to command-line compaction available to the opened upwardly origin developer community on GitHub nether the permissive MIT license.
The companionship has also launched alpha versions of PowerShell for Linux (specifically Red Hat, Ubuntu, in addition to CentOS) in addition to Mac OS X, inward addition, of course, to Windows.
Now, people tin download binaries of the software, equally good equally access origin code of the app from the novel PowerShell GitHub page.
"Users across Windows in addition to Linux, electrical current in addition to novel PowerShell users, fifty-fifty application developers tin sense a rich interactive scripting linguistic communication equally good equally a heterogeneous automation in addition to configuration management that industrial plant good amongst your existing tools," Microsoft says inward its blog post.
"Your PowerShell skills are at i time fifty-fifty to a greater extent than marketable, in addition to your Windows in addition to Linux teams, who may select had to operate separately, tin at i time operate together to a greater extent than easily."PowerShell is Microsoft’s ascendence business compaction for Windows ability users, in addition to an extensible scripting linguistic communication for automating arrangement tasks.
Microsoft is aware that the companionship at i time operates inward a "multi-platform, multi-cloud, multi-OS world." Since PowerShell is built on Microsoft's .NET platform, the companionship brought .NET Core, the version of .NET which runs cross-platform, to convey PowerShell to other platforms.
Microsoft has already planned to send PowerShell "Core" amongst Nano Server for Windows Server 2016, in addition to the newly announced loose volition run on .NET Core on Mac equally good equally Linux.
Although this recent loose of PowerShell is Alpha-based in addition to community supported, an official Microsoft version of PowerShell based on opened upwardly origin to anyone running a supported version of Windows volition last published inward the future, Microsoft notes.
