Windows Vista Losing Monad

It looks like yet another feature is being pulled from Windows Vista. This time, the Microsoft Shell (MSH, codename Monad) is the feature being pulled from MS's next operating system. Monad was going to be one of those cool features for geeks, as Microsoft was looking to the unix shells as a model on how to do great things with the command line prompt. Personally, I hated the command line, until I started to use Linux, and then I realized how a real command line is supposed to work. Monad has many great features, and looks like it will be a killer system, in conjunction with the Windows File System (also chopped from Vista). I know that Byron was looking forward to Monad, but it looks like his favourite OS company has let him down yet again ;)

MS is planning on releasing Monad with the server version of Longhorn, due to be released sometime in 2007.