Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of PowerShell at Microsoft, took to the Azure blogs today to announce the company is deliver PowerShell as a fully open sourced solution. The software is available now on GitHub.
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The PowerShell open source project is now available on GitHub, along with alpha versions for the Ubuntu, Centos, and Red Hat variants of Linux. With PowerShell becoming available on all major operating systems, the skills learned on Windows can now be used elsewhere, much like Microsoft has done by bringing BASH to Windows; Linux users can bring those skills to Windows. Your PowerShell skills are now even more marketable, and your Windows and Linux teams, who may have had to work separately, can now work together more easily.
“In the past, Microsoft’s business focus meant that.NET, and thus PowerShell, were only available on Windows”.
With almost 1 in 3 VMs on Azure running Linux, it’s not a surprise to see the company embracing this community with open arms. These efforts have brought Apple and Microsoft a bit more in line with web companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter, which have open-sourced new tools on the regular for many years.
PowerShell is Microsoft’s command-line shell and scripting language.
Thursday’s announcement also included the release of the PowerShell Editor Service, which lets Visual Studio Code and Sublime Text work with PowerShell, including support for debugging. Today, it ships as part of Windows 10. Microsoft said that support for other editors will be coming in the future.
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