The 'father of PowerShell,' Jeffrey Snover, announced this week that he'll be leaving Microsoft on July 1.

Sorry Cato, companies do not reward courage PowerShell inventor Jeffrey Snover has aired some grievances about how his indispensable tool once got him demoted.

With PowerShell, Microsoft now gives its customers “a single management stack on any client they like,” Snover added (assuming the clients you like are Windows, OS X and Linux, of course).

It's also being ported for use on Linux and Mac OSX platforms. "As we port PowerShell to Linux, we are making sure that we are a first class citizen on that platform. We fit in well with the ...

That can leverage PowerShell functionality to implement certain operations, including those exposed via the graphical interface. Jeffrey Snover, a Windows Management Partner architect at Microsoft ...

But this is a new Microsoft,” PowerShell inventor and Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Group and Azure Stack lead architect Jeffrey Snover wrote in a blog post.

But PowerShell for Linux goes a long way beyond that. “PowerShell is a framework that management products build on top of,” Snover points out.