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 Screenshot of a PowerShell 7.5.0 session in Windows Terminal | ||
| Paradigm | Imperative, pipeline, object-oriented, functional and reflective | |
| Designed by | Jeffrey Snover, Bruce Payette, James Truher (et al.) | |
| Developer | Microsoft | |
| First appeared | November 14, 2006;19 years ago (2006-11-14) | |
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| License | MIT License (but the Windows component remains proprietary) | |
| Filename extensions | MS-DOS 5 also came with a complementary graphical DOS Shell. The Windows 9x family came bundled with COMMAND.COM, the command-line environment of MS-DOS. The Windows NT and Windows CE families, however, came with the newer cmd.exe – including the inability to directly use a software component exposed via COM
– BeginProcessing(), ProcessRecord() and EndProcessing()
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