Comment This is just a problem waiting to happen (Score 4, Interesting) 265
I only see this causing issues.
1) Windows Admins writing power shell scripts to do stuff on linux boxes
a) setting permissions to 777 because they got in the way.
b) why will it not write the file to c:\?
c) A power shell script developed and tested on Windows, then pushed out to all the servers and crashing the Linux boxes.
c) Do you really believe that a Linux admin would allow a windows Admin to run a Power Shell script as root?
2) Linux Admins being asked to manage windows servers because "You know Power Shell" (If they can get the Linux admin to manage the 300 windows servers on top of the existing 500 Linux servers he manages, it saves them headcount and $$$)
Personally I see it going the way all the other Microsoft products have gone when they release a Linux version. It gets adopted by a few windows admins that are forced to work on linux. However the Linux admins and the bulk of Linux systems will never see it or use it. It will eventually get dropped because of the bugs, memory leaks, and issues that are found in it. Those that are never fixed because they concentrate on the Windows version and ignore the Linux version.
Judging from history it is another Embrace, Extend, Extinguish attempt. Microsoft is just pulling from it's old bag of tricks.