[dayglored]

> What do you think the chances are that somebody over at Apple is busy porting Powershell to OSX?

I'd think.... zero. OS-X has six major flavors of the Bourne and Csh families of Unix shells already, any of which are at least as capable as Powershell:

% cat /etc/shells
/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/ksh
/bin/sh
/bin/tcsh
/bin/zsh

Powershell is great on a Windows box, I agree. But only because COMMAND.COM and CMD.EXE were the only native alternatives until it appeared. Granted all shells have their strengths and weaknesses. But overall, Powershell is 20 years behind the times. They should have supplied that as a baseline part of Windows 3.1, and been expanding on it since.

[dayglored]

> ...They should have supplied that {Powershell] as a baseline part of Windows 3.1,...

By which I meant NT 3.1, the first release of NT. Not the DOS-based 3.1.