An article was posted to slashdot indicating that Microsoft may be planning a new version of their shell. The evidence was a job board posting that explained some of the details.
Since then the job board posting has expired, but I had happened to copy it (see below). Not sure how valid this might be, but sure has some interesting implications if it is true.
"MS Next Generation Shell Team
Software Design Engineer in Test
MS Next Generation Shell Team
The Microsoft Next Generation Shell Team is designing and developing a new command line scripting environment from the ground up. The new shell and utilities, based on the .NET Frameworks, will provide a very rich object-based mechanism for managing system properties. To be delivered in the next release of Windows, it will include the attributes of competitors’ shells (e.g. aliases, job control, command substitution, pipelines, regular expressions, transparent remote execution) plus rich features based on Windows and .NET (e.g. command discovery via .NET reflection API’s, object-based properties/methods, 1:many server scripting, pervasive auto-complete). We are looking for strong individual contributors that will be directly responsible for the requirements analysis, design, development, testing and delivery of the new shell and utilities in Windows. The successful candidate will have demonstrated proficiency in design and development of tests for shipping products from initial test design and planning through release. Qualified applicants will have strong technical/design skills, a keen desire to develop solutions to solve customers’ problems, and excellent communication and teamwork skills. Candidates should have Windows NT or Windows 2000 system programming experience, development experience with object-oriented languages and design methodologies as well as with scripting and shell languages like PERL, Python and Bash. Candidates should have at least 2-5 years experience (based on level interviewing for) in high technology, preferably delivering products for both Windows and non-Windows operating systems. Experience working in geographically distributed development teams is a plus. This position is in Hyderabad, India."
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