What is Windows PowerShell?

Question

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

Answer 1

Windows PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft.

It's having extendable command shell and scripting language which can be used to manage or administer server environments like Windows Server, Exchange and also SharePoint 2010.