Why I’m Not Touching MSH (Monad)

By Daniel Miessler on October 30th, 2005: Tagged as Technology | Windows

Monad is the new command-line tool from Microsoft, and supposedly it is it’s going to be highly cool. Unfortunately, for the time being, I’m not going to touch it.

Why? Well, as strange as it sounds, I’m afraid I’ll like it. The simple reality is that I’m not going to go back to Windows as my main computing platform regardless of how cool it is. And if it were to have some cool features that my shell in Linux or OS X doesn’t have, well…that would just be bad.

I mean, I already use SFU to emulate my *nix environments, and I’m pretty happy with having roughly the same set of commands when I go from platform to platform.

I think it really boils down to something simple, though — I am deathly afraid of facing a situation in which I’m on a Linux box and go to try something I can do in MSH, only to realize that I can’t.

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  • Tim
    Ugh. I personally think this is a case of Microsoft trying to play catch-up to the competition (like IE finally getting pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing). Unix and Linux have been using command-line shells for a *long* time and the programmers working on them have gotten rather good at it. Maybe M$ will add some small insight to the game, but I feel confident that the shell you use will eventually find some way to pick up the new feature(s).
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