Say goodbye to the MS-DOS command prompt
I have very mixed feelings about this.<p>On the one hand, the Command Prompt in Windows has always been something of a second-class citizen, a poor imitation of the power user shells of the UNIX&#x2F;Linux world. It was long overdue for an upgrade. PowerShell is, no doubt, more powerful, and for professional Windows sysadmins with the time and inclination to learn it, it&#x27;s probably been the default for a long time.<p>On the other hand, there&#x27;s a reason the traditional command prompt and batch files have lasted so long: for a lot of basic purposes, they work just fine, and many people know how to use them. Among those who <i>aren&#x27;t</i> professional Windows sysadmins, I know very few people who seem to use Powershell at all, probably not helped by the fact that it has some of the worst documentation in computing history and is far from intuitive for anyone familiar with either the traditional Windows command prompt or something like bash.<p>I&#x27;m still not at all comfortable with the idea that with Windows 10 you&#x27;ll essentially just wake up one morning and find something you&#x27;ve been using happily for literally decades isn&#x27;t there any more and pressing the keyboard shortcut that got you want you wanted last night doesn&#x27;t do so this morning. Regardless of whether this particular change can be turned off, at least for now, this still seems a very dangerous policy in general.