The 'father of PowerShell,' Jeffrey Snover, announced this week that he'll be leaving Microsoft on July 1.

Sorry Cato, companies do not reward courage PowerShell inventor Jeffrey Snover has aired some grievances about how his indispensable tool once got him demoted.

With PowerShell, Microsoft now gives its customers “a single management stack on any client they like,” Snover added (assuming the clients you like are Windows, OS X and Linux, of course).

But this is a new Microsoft,” PowerShell inventor and Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Group and Azure Stack lead architect Jeffrey Snover wrote in a blog post.

It's also being ported for use on Linux and Mac OSX platforms. "As we port PowerShell to Linux, we are making sure that we are a first class citizen on that platform. We fit in well with the ...

Microsoft has open sourced PowerShell, it’s automation tool and command line shell. That’s not all, PowerShell is also coming to Linux.

But PowerShell for Linux goes a long way beyond that. “PowerShell is a framework that management products build on top of,” Snover points out.

Microsoft originally announced PowerShell 2.0 at the end of 2008, when the chief architect at the time, Jeffrey Snover, announced its integration into Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2 and Windows Server ...

Jeffrey Snover, a Technical Fellow with the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Group, invites users to download alpha builds and grab the source code from GitHub.