What is Windows PowerShell?

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What is PowerShell?

I have Windows 7 installed, and I noticed that it has PowerShell. I remember installing this a while back when signing up for Windows Azure, but only

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In my opinion, the big deal is PowerShell passes around objects. It takes a while to realize just how powerful this is. For example, instead of munging the text output of a utility, looking for what you want in characters 7 through 18, you can just access a property of an object. That's much faster to use, and it's not going to break if a new version adds an extra character to the output.