Chapter 3. The Windows PowerShell Approach
The PowerShell team recognized many limitations of the existing Microsoft command line, GUI, and scripting tools which I described in Chapter 2. The background against which the PowerShell team was working was changing significantly with a strategic move at Microsoft from COM (Component Object Model) programming to .NET Framework programming. It therefore made sense, going forward, for PowerShell to be based on the .NET Framework.
The move from COM-based programming to .NET Framework–based programming opened up opportunities to create a new approach to the command line and a new scripting language using the same commands and syntax as were available on the command line.
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