The thing that gets me...
...is that powershell appeared to me (when Microsoft showed me how to use it in a product demo that I went to) to be a way of making IT systems jobs very specialized so we could all master this stupid piece of software and then say to employers how wonderful we are. Which everyone thought was a backward step because it was like going back to DOS but hey, at least it would keep us in a job.
Few years later, now they're trying to put us out of a job with the "cloud" and they think developers are all that matters.
It's all revenue driven, okay make administrators Gods then they'll thank us by buying our software because it's so specific, oh we can't make any more money out of that, let's move to a subscription based licensing model and call it the "cloud", oh Apple is killing us with the iPad, let's make Windows work better on tablets because we can't sell anything more to enterprises, etc.
Microsoft has just created this monster that needs to be kept fed with large amounts of money and so they keep lurching from one thing to another, it'll be interesting to see what happens if Windows 8 is a major flop as most people are predicting.
