Last week, Microsoft broke ground when it announced that Bash, the GNU project's shell, will benatively integrated into Windows 10with the upcoming release of the operating system's anniversary update that's set to launchthis summer.
Beyond the excitement and surprise this announcement generated, however, some people asked if the inclusion of Bash in Windows 10 would eventually spell the end for Microsoft's task automation and configuration management framework, PowerShell. Responding to that question in a Q&A session, Jeffrey Snover, a Microsoft Technical Fellow and the inventor of PowerShell, said absolutely not.
According to Snover, the decision to include Bash in Windows was the result of finding that developers had frequently said that the native Windows tools complicated their workflow. "The Bash shell is focused on developers...