Powershell's object pipeline far outshines the Unix style "pass around strings and dick with parsing everywhere". It also handles quoting in a much more sane manner, eliminating security holes or just plain bugs you get in, say, bash. The included editor and command line completion for arguments is really slick. Painting PS as just NIH is simply incorrect.
MS bringing back Services for Unix for real is a somewhat orthogonal issue than coming up with a superior shell.
MS bringing back Services for Unix for real is a somewhat orthogonal issue than coming up with a superior shell.