PowerShell, Microsoft's popular scripting tool for automating tasks in Windows, is now available on Linux and the company has released the code to the open source community.

Sysadmins, rejoice: PowerShell is coming to Linux. Microsoft announced Thursday that its automation and scripting system is breaking out of the confines of Windows and going open source.

Alpha version prebuilt packages of the open source version are available for CentOS, Ubuntu, and OS X, in addition, of course, to Windows. Additional platforms are promised in the future.

Microsoft today announced that it will be open-sourcing the Windows command line tool PowerShell. The company is making alpha releases for Linux and OS X available today on GitHub.

Microsoft is announcing today that it’s open-sourcing PowerShell, its system administration and configuration management tool that’s been a default part of Windows for several years. Microsoft ...

PowerShell, the company’s flagship command-line environment for automation and systems management, will be released as an open source project and ported to Linux and MacOS.

It's designed to manage vSphere. When Microsoft open-sourced PowerShell, the company truly made it a cross-platform scripting language. Moreover, shortly after PowerShell was open-sourced, VMware labs ...

In addition, the PowerShell team will be working with the OpenSSH project to share their work with the open-source community. According to Calvo, users who need to work with both Windows and Linux ...