The origin of PowerShell, from the inventor

PowerShell's creator recounts the origin story of the shell, explaining how Microsoft's conflicting philosophies around GUI-first administration and VBScript-based automation left a gap. He argued that Unix got it right with iterative command-line exploration, and that admins needed a proper automation model rather than waiting years for GUI tools or dealing with watered-down scripting. This led to the creation of PowerShell as a serious administrative automation platform.