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WindowsNews April 1, 2026 2 min read

Windows PowerShell 1.0 Ships, Ending Its Life as 'Monad'

First previewed under the codename Monad in 2003, renamed Windows PowerShell in April 2006, and finally released to the web that November — replacing decades of cmd.exe-centric scripting with a genuine object-oriented shell.

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FreeDOSDeep Dive February 19, 2026 3 min read

Writing Batch Files on FreeDOS

A practical tour of FreeDOS batch scripting: variables, control flow, argument handling, and the quirks that differ from a modern shell.

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