Looks like MS are replacing their cmd with the new Monad Shell, or
MSH for short.
Interview here:
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/trans/windowsnet/wnet_120704.mspx
For those of you who want instructions on how to install it on XP/2003/whatever:
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http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2004/06/25/166334.aspx
More general info:
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http://wesnerm.blogs.com/net_undocumented/2004/05/monad_shell.html
You can just run "msh.exe" if you have a Longhorn build.
Here's a Google translate to html from a MS .ppt about MSH, not much actual content (lots of lists of commands/operators/etc though) since I guess it was meant to be given with a speech, still interesting.
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http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:YBnNxqBSgfoJ:download.microsoft.com/download/1/8/f/18f8cee2-0b[CODE]64-41f2-893d-a6f2295b40c8/TW04038_WINHEC2004.ppt+Monad+SHell&hl=en&client=firefox
Original ppt:
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http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/8/f/18f8cee2-0b64-41f2-893d-a6f2295b40c8/TW04038_WINHEC2004.ppt
Personally, I think this looks to be very interesting, much more productive and useful - however, it could just as easily be a flop though...
Edit: Screwed up the formatting a bit, sorry.