Powershell is now “PowerCloud”

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Microsoft, in its usual vein of focus-on-the-wrong-thing, has decided to rebrand the anticipated Powershell 4.0 as PowerCloud.  To keep the new theme consistent, cmdlets will now be called “cloudlets”.

The Dali poster looks FINE next to Stonehenge. Can we order the pizza now?
The Dali poster looks FINE next to Stonehenge. Can we order the pizza now?

When I heard, I was – of course – livid.  Yet ANOTHER name change as fickle as a college student rearranging Ikea furniture in a smelly 10×12 dorm.

But then I started thinking about it. This is actually the first recent rebranding that makes sense to me. I get where the whole “cloud” thing comes from originally – here’s the middle of the muddle, where communication and stuff happens – but I’ve been really tired of Cloud services, Cloud databases, email in the Cloud – wasn’t it ALWAYS there?? – and cloudy cloudy Cloud-cloud.

But think about it: Powershell (excuse me, PowerCloud), as strong as it is on a local server, is MOST powerful when it’s applied across an enterprise: many AD servers, SQL servers, and so on.  Across a CLOUD of (admittedly, usually in-house) resources.  Get it? The new name puts the emphasis on the strength of Powershell. I mean PowerCloud.

And really, if I’m going to be accepting of this new change, I should just relax and accept the inevitable: Microsoft is committed  to the Cloud, in every way. Windows Azure, Cloud services, PowerCloud. I suspect the next moves will be rebranding more traditionally in-house Microsoft products, like

  • Windows => Windows Sky
  • Internet Explorer => Explorer Blue
  • SQL Server => Thunderbolt Data
  • Office => Storm Front
  • Surface => Firmament Tablet
  • Visual Studio => Heaven’s Workshop

trollfaceI for one welcome our newly renamed shell interface overlords.

Happy Powerclouding, y’all…
Jen McCown
http://www.MidnightDBA.com/Jen

 

** Today’s soundtrack: Skyscrapers, Pennies from Heaven, Cheek to Cheek, Free Fallin’, Goodbye Blue Sky, Learning to Fly, Blue Sky Mine