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I'm not a user or fan of powershell, but let me tell you something funny... The creator of Powershell did it as a side project at Microsoft and got DEMOTED for doing it. That's about all you need to know about the culture of Microsoft in the Steve Ballmer years.

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That's literally the opposite of what the OP claims, then.

Opposite? It's basically exactly what the OP was alluding to in 2013

OP claimed that pwsh was started because it was new and shiny and would lead to a quicker promotion than working on cmd. Turns out that the guy who created pwsh didn't get promoted, but actually demoted. If you can't understand that demotion is the opposite of promotion, well...

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