Originally posted: ZogBlog::road less traveled, on November 1st, 8:11p EST.
Late last year, I went to the Professional Developer's Conference in Los Angeles. On the roster of things I was interested in: Monad.
Monad is the next generation of Command Prompt (shell) for Windows, sometimes referred to as MSH (pronounced MuSH, I believe). Details have been sketchy, but the word is that shell scripts will be fully object-oriented and should be capable of leveraging the OS in ways VBScript (the former method of shell scripting) could only dream of... \
At the PDC, there wasn't much to see... and I don't remember the bits (DVDs with Longhorn Alpha, Whidbey B1, Yukon B1) having Monad. So I waited until the Microsoft Management Summit 2004 to see a brief titled: Monad, The Microsoft Shell (or something close to that). Unfortunately, it was canceled. When I asked why, I was told by one of the Microsoft presenters that Monad just wasn't ready to be demo'd. A few months later, I found I could download it and test it out myself (which I never did).
Anyway, Jeffrey Snover has taken the time to explain just what Monad is in a Channel 9 video titled, Microsoft's Monad Explained (courtesy of Neowin).
posted @ Thursday, November 18, 2004 3:35 PM