Excessively grandiose product names

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Sensible operating systems have had powerful shells for decades. They  
have names like 'sh', 'bash', 'tcsh'. Modest names. So why, when  
Windows finally does a bit of catching up, does the shell have to be  
called 'PowerShell'?

They were going to call it Monad. Not a bad name that. A bit  
enigmatic and interesting sounding. Obviously that wasn't sexy enough  
though so now it's <voice class="hollywood">PowerShell</voice>. Hear  
it roar!

Of course if you can work out what the fuck the cygwin installer  
(which should probably be the topic of another post) is trying to do  
you can just install bash instead.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

• Excessively grandiose product names Andy Armstrong 13:07 on 24 Jan 2007
  • cygwin (was: Excessively grandiose product names) Yossi Kreinin 15:32 on 24 Jan 2007
    • too deep to show
  • Peter da Silva 20:08 on 24 Jan 2007
  • Re: Excessively grandiose product names A. Pagaltzis 01:17 on 25 Jan 2007

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