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To be clear. there was no way this was ever going to happen.
We knew they messed with CMD, we just didn't know how or why.
It turns out they just removed the links to CMD to make it more difficult to get to them.
As a clarification on why they would never remove CMD they said
"The Cmd shell remains an essential part of Windows, and is used daily by millions of businesses, developers, and IT Pro's around the world."
"Cmd is one of the most frequently run executables on Windows!"
"Many of our customers and partners are totally dependent on Cmd, and all it's quirks, for their companies' existence!"
I hope a journalist follows up on that and asks them
Then why are you @#$%! messing with it in any way, even if it's just to remove links to it and to make it more difficult to get to?
How? A vast majority of Windows users don't know what a command line is, let alone be able to tell anything changed. Powershell works better than cmd, so I don't understand why this is a bad thing at all.The big picture here is Marketing 101 fail on their part. Nothing really changed. They were never good at handling publicity/marketing in all of Microsoft's history.
This happens all the time with them.
I wonder what percent of bat/cmd files are malicious...
Powershell has the capability to do pretty much everything command prompt did but is easier, has autocomplete functions, and writing scripts makes a hell of a lot more sense in the ISE.
i may have or have not brought down the entirety of our schools computers with a simple forkbomb batch file lmao
"Back in the good old days of MS-DOS/Win95/Win98" a batch file was one of the simplest way to seriously ruin someone's day. I may or may not be guilty of doing something similar on an IT course where the teacher put me in charge of re-installing MS-DOS 6.22 (all 4 floppy's) on 24 computers one at a time
Wow man, that's some devious evil stuff.
You guys take pleasure in messing up other people's lives?