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Microsoft releases PowerShell (formerly Monad) RC1
by Jordan Running Apr 26th 2006 at 10:25AM
Remember Monad, the next-generation command shell that was supposed to be
part of Windows Vista? It's still not going to be part of Vista, but development continues and yesterday saw the
arrival of the first release candidate. Microsoft has given it a new name, Windows PowerShell (I gotta say I liked
Monad and MSH better), and given it its own web
site where you can learn how to use it and even its own team blog. You
can download
PowerShell RC1 from the Microsoft Download Center, but you'll need to get a Passport account if you don't already
have one.[Via Slashdot]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Richard said 11:01AM on 4-26-2006
Will it work with Windows 2000?
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Jordan Running said 1:02PM on 4-26-2006
Richard: From the download page linked above: "Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Vista; Windows XP; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2."
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