[dayglored]

This is huge. OpenSSH in NATIVE Windows at last!!!

Another rotten chunk of Ballmer's inane managerial legacy bites the dust, and sanity breaks through like sunshine on a cloudy day!!

For decades we have tolerated Cygwin and various other solutions to the perennial problem of "How the hell do you login to Windows and get a shell?!??"

(Mind you, I like Cygwin much of the time. But it's a 3rd party bolt-on with the accompanying difficulties.)

We be happy. WE BE VERY HAPPY!!

[dayglored]

WAA-HOOO!!! NATIVE SSH FOR WINDOWS AT LAST ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: search on keyword "windowspinglist".

I'm gonna have a beer. Y'all will excuse me...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I’m not a techie, so I don’t have a clue what you are talking about.

However, my laptop runs Windows 7 and tonight I have a tray icon that says “Get Windows 10”.

Any advice? Go for it? Wait? Run away?

Thank you all in advance.

[Scutter]

About damn time.

[dayglored]

Y'all want to know one of the reasons I decided to start up the FR Windows Ping List?

Because NO MORE BALLMER. Because Windows finally has a chance to SHINE without that idiot at the controls!!

This isn't the first time Microsofties have tried to adopt SSH for Windows. Engineers at Redmond giant say they had tried on two separate occasions to allow the secure protocol to be used within Windows, attempts that were struck down by leadership.

Third-party SSH tools have been available on Windows for years, but this announcement is effectively Microsoft's official endorsement of the open-source technology.

The change in policy has been linked directly to changes at the top of Microsoft – the departure of Steve Ballmer as CEO and the rise of Satya Nadella, a move that MS employees say brought a change in culture and perspective in Redmond.

"Given our changes in leadership and culture, we decided to give it another try and this time, because we are able to show the clear and compelling customer value, the company is very supportive," Calvo wrote.

I have worked with and on Windows almost since its inception in the mid-80's. My dislike of Ballmer's pig-headed executive/management regime is nearly as old.

To any fellow FReeper who is a Ballmer fan -- you're as welcome to your opinion as I am to mine, and you may feel just as free to voice yours here.

[TChad]

Eclectech might have to rewrite their classic sysadmin day song.

http://www.eclectech.co.uk/sysadminday.php

[rarestia]

Umm... PSRemoting has been around since Windows 2008. I can do “Enter-PSSession” and be remotely consoled to a server. This sounds like they’re moving that functionality to a common port (22). Am I missing anything?