What really gets me is that MS almost fixed that with powershell -- and then made the defaults policies so restrictive that you need to go through hoops to actually be able to use the thing. I do get that it's "really powerful and lets not create another set of visual basic script viruses" -- but the UI is just horrible. Maybe it's better in 8, but last I checked I think you had to go into the policy editor and choose between "safe - no powershell for you", "safe-ish - only signed powershell (still no powershell for you) and: open season on shooting your feet off: powershell always, everywhere, all the time.

Don't get me wrong, I still prefer living with bash and a full GNU system -- it's just sad about what MS did (or didn't) do with their command line tools since 2003ish and on.