The first beta version of Microsoft’s new Command Line based shell was released to users via Microsoft’s BetaPlace website on Friday. The release, codenamed “Monad”, was originally thought to be a component of Longhorn. However, recent news has disconfirmed these reports – saying the new programmable Unix-like shell will be released separate from Longhorn.
While ordinary PC users may not detect a huge difference from previous shells, many advanced users will note differences. Several advanced functions will be built into the new add-on – such as Administrative functions, which would enable users to do much more from the command line rather than from the graphical interface. The release will also play a central role in Microsoft’s forthcoming Exchange 12 release.
Interested users can try out Monad by signing in on the BetaPlace website under the guest ID of “mshPDC”.
View: Microsoft's BetaPlace Website
News source: Monad Team Blog on MSDN
While ordinary PC users may not detect a huge difference from previous shells, many advanced users will note differences. Several advanced functions will be built into the new add-on – such as Administrative functions, which would enable users to do much more from the command line rather than from the graphical interface. The release will also play a central role in Microsoft’s forthcoming Exchange 12 release.
Interested users can try out Monad by signing in on the BetaPlace website under the guest ID of “mshPDC”.
View: Microsoft's BetaPlace Website News source: Monad Team Blog on MSDN
What's Included: (new/updated entries are marked like this):
Windows XP SP2 - Critical Updates
KB834707: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer
KB873339: Vulnerability in HyperTerminal could allow code execution
KB873374: Microsoft GDI+ Detection Tool
KB885626: Your computer stops responding when you restart to complete the installation of Windows XP SP2
KB885835: Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel and LSASS could allow elevation of privilege
KB885836: A vulnerability in WordPad could allow code execution
KB886185: Windows Firewall "My Network (subnet) only" scoping
KB890175: Vulnerability in HTML Help could allow code execution
KB890830: Malicious Software Removal Tool
KB867282: Cumulative Security Update for IE for XP Service Pack 2
KB873333: Security Update for Windows XP
KB885250: Security Update for Windows XP
KB886903: Security Update for .NET Framework 1.1 SP1
KB888113: Security Update for Windows XP
KB888302: Security Update for Windows XP
KB890047: Security Update for Windows XP
KB891781: Security Update for Windows XP
KB890923: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer
KB892944: Vulnerability in Message Queuing Could Allow Code Execution
KB893066: Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP Could Allow Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service
KB890859: Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel Could Allow Elevation of Privilege and Denial of Service
KB893086: Vulnerability in Windows Shell that Could Allow Remote Code Execution
KB890830: Malicious Software Removal Tool v1.4
KB883939: Cumulative Security Update for IE for Windows XP SP2
KB890046: Security Update for Windows XP
KB890830: Malicious Software Removal Tool v1.5
KB896358: Security Update for Microsoft Windows XP
KB896422: Security Update for Windows XP
KB896428: Security Update for Windows XP
KB898458: Security Update for Windows XP
Windows XP SP2 - Recommended updates
KB831240: Update for HighMAT support in the Windows XP CD Writing Wizard
KB884020: Loopback IP address range problem
KB885222: Performance of 1394 devices may decrease after you install Windows XP SP2
KB886677: Corrupt DBCS characters in Internet Explorer on Windows XP
KB887742: Stop error "Stop 0x05" in Windows XP SP2 or Windows Server 2003
KB887797: Cumulative Update for Outlook Express for Windows XP
KB888240: Add-ons not listed in Internet Explorer on Windows XP SP2
KB890831: Input Method Editor disabled when using MSN Messenger in Windows XP SP2
KB891122: Update for DRM-enabled Media Players
KB892313: Fix for problems when playing MPEG4 videos in WMP 10
KB893357: Update for Windows XP
KB895181: Fix for MPEG4 videos in Windows Media Player 10
KB888656: FIX: Update to enable DirectX Video Acceleration of Windows Media Video content in WMP 10
KB894391: Update for Windows XP
KB896344: Update for Windows XP
Components
.NET Framework 1.1 (+SP1) (only in Full)
Windows Media Player 10.0.3802 (only in Full)
Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8 SP1 (only in Full)
Windows Installer 3.1 (v2)
Windows Script 5.6 for Windows XP (v5.6.0.8825) (only in Full)
Add-ons
Adaptec ASPI
Bootvis 1.3.37 (only in Full)
Official Windows XP PowerToys
Copy Profile Tool
DirectX Control Panel
PowerMenu 1.5.1
Startup Control Panel 2.8
New XP Style Wallpapers (only in Full)
New XP Screensavers (only in Full)
Windows Messenger 5.1 (only in Full)
Macromedia Shockwave Player (only in Full)
Windows Media Connect (only in Full)
MSN Messenger 7.0.0813 (only in Full)
New Theme: Royale (only in Full)
New Wallpapers (only in Full)
New AutoPatcher Wallpaper (only in Full)
Sun Java 1.5.0_03 (only in Full)
Google Toolbar 3.0.123.2 (only in Full)
Internet Explorer Spellcheck Tool 2.1.1 (325) (only in Full)
Microsoft Journal Viewer 1.5.2316.0 (only in Full)
And of course a lot of registry tweaks which improve speed, appearance, functionality and security!
File Size & MD5 Hashes
English June 2005 Full File Size: 149 MB (156786445 bytes)
English June 2005 Full MD5 Hash: 8931096F53811F2CF285B47E17D8E5BB
English June 2005 Lite File Size: 66.9 MB (70243062 bytes)
English June 2005 Lite MD5 Hash: 791234ACB72288AB2D6F0B03501D37BE
Portuguese June 2005 Full File Size: 141 MB (148037798 bytes)
Portuguese June 2005 Full MD5 Hash: 98042AE3F4230B1D9FC7EE5F48DB8E84
Portuguese June 2005 Lite File Size: 58.4 MB (61313967 bytes)
Portuguese June 2005 Lite MD5 Hash: FC5E8B285135F9FF71AE81F10CD80F5A
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Download here
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Sorry for the low-res.
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just imagine it's in a cmd window
So wait...I would be in violation of the NDA if I cut and pasted anything beyond the msh>?
Last edited by 76077 on 22 Jun 2005 - 12:21
can i upload them?
Edit: Very wierd. I clicked on the reply button on the previous thread.
But this ended up as a new thread.
Neowin 'Coderator' did you break something again?
Screenshots? It's not like there's a UI.
What do you need screenshots of? dir?
Well, "dir" is an alias, as is "ls". Which I found kinda funny.
I didn't notice any problems.
However, if you do end up with any issues be a good beta tester and report the problem at beta.microsoft.com.
Sometimes people get gifts from Microsoft for being a good tester.
If nothing else, maybe you will get a cookie.
Way to go on catching up to a decades old technology.
It's bringing .NET technologies to the command line. It's more about using the .NET framework in a new way that may suit certain apps better, than bringing in "decades old technology". This is a modern object oriented shell too, something you don't see every day, and certainly not what's common in the *nix world.
Not common, but existant anyway. Eg. ooRexx.
How are the commands?
Are they advanced?
Are they short to type?
They're nice.
Yes, quite, especially chained together.
Not really, but they usually have aliases.
More like, playing catch up.
And besides, you'll get my bash shell when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
And there are many people around who wouldn't even know how to use MSH nor Bash and are posting "Linux will get OWNED!!!111 WTF LOLOLOL" for a reason that baffles my mind. Will you use it? Do you *know* you will enjoy having such a feature and why? Do you even know how it compares to linux? (Comparing a shell to an operating system... apples and oranges. An crappy OS with an awesome shell still remains a crappy OS -- look at VAX/VMS, if any people with a large e-beards are around).
If not, shut up. You sound like a fanboy.
If you do, well great.
People who use and love linux/unix will not suddendly drop their pants and wank furiously before switching to windows.
In my case for instance, it will just make my journey in administering Windows servers more pleasant (read, less annoying) -- if I am still administering Windows servers when it comes out.
I am a network administrator actually. I administer a good deal of Windows Server 2003 machines on a daily basis. Today I merged the CVS branches of the developpers and then made an export for the production website update, updated the Macromedia JRun classes, merged the Oracle 9i databases and tightened the IIS 6 configuration because it's set pretty loosely during the testing stages.
Then I did some maintenance on the eTrust SCM proxy, running inside a new Virtual Server 2005 machine. Then, I proceeded to implement another Virtual Server 2005 environnement to try to implement Subversion to see it if would be more suited. (I'm trying to push VMWare GSX to the management. It works better.)
I also fixed a slight bug in my Perl script which just connects to every single machine in the domain and then changes the password of a specified local user account.
During all these daily tasks, I end up using the windows command line and I cry inside whenever I realize I can't do crap with it, while any half-assed commercial unix with the prehistoric sh shell suffices to make it a better experience. Hence, why I appreciate the initiative of MSH, and feel like urinating on your comment because you obviously have no clue what the hell you're talking about, kid.
Now, your comeback was awful, and you did not address any of the points I made or made a relevant comment. The only thing you accomplished is correctly demonstrating that you are a troll with no other goal than stir **** up and look cool.
Have a nice day.
But don't think that this is just about playing catch-up. At this point, msh looks to me like a step forward even beyond bash/zsh.
Your argumentation skills are kinda lame, that is the tactic of a 13 years old kid in a school yard...
(I.E: "But your point doesn't make sense at all for X Y an Z reasons... what do you answer to that?" -- "Your tie sucks." And if you are so curious about my personal life, and verify when I signed up, you'll notice that I am some sort of dinosaur on these forums. Hence, I was a young grasshopper at the time, and did such a thing from fear of my nickname being already taken. I kindof overdid it though. But again that's not the issue.)
And besides, to wrap things up if MSH does surpasses Bash, it's not Linux that will be owned at all. Just the Bash shell. Or Csh. Or Zsh. Or Ksh.
If you would have said "UNIX-Like command line is going to get Owned" then I would not have gotten my panties in a bunch. But you clearly know not what you're talking about.
You have been flagged as a troll with no debate skills whatsoever in my book now
And well, threedaysdwn, I will admit that indeed it has very interesting features -- I began playing with it at work to see what I could do, and man, some stuff in there is really powerful. Future will tell if it abstracts you too much from the operating system.
mr_doraemon is miffed because ms is not releasing a win98 version of the shell so that he can better "administrate" his dad's win98se box
Ahahahah.
Even more trolling. Even more stupidity.
If you think that's all Linux has over Windows, then you're an idiot.
Sorry dude, you're just digging the hole deeper. Bail out while you still can.. oops. Too late, you've proven to everyone that you're clueless now.
And still another jab at how I am some kind of pseudo administrator? You know, re-using the same insult a second time after I've addressed it makes you look like an idiot.
And for the record, it's mr_daemon, not doraemon the old manga character. Daemon as in, a unix daemon.
Anyways, you come out as pathetic instead of insightful like you expected.
Why not? Seems entirely possible to me that something can both catch up and overtake the competition in one leap.
If you look at msh, then Windows is going to be ahead of Linux in terms of default CLI usefulness. In fact msh, from my understanding, is a significant step forward from any of the *nix shells.
I've looked but could only find scattered blog posts with some example here and there...
It would help getting introduced to it a good way instead of just experimenting with it a bit.
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx...hannel9.MSHWiki
http://www.stevex.org/CS/blogs/dottext/art...icles/1152.aspx (very basic, just a little about the get-childitem)
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/11/02.html (this one was pretty cool IMHO)
Last edited by 21023 on 21 Jun 2005 - 10:47
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It's just a stab in the dark though...
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