This is PowerShell v1. PowerShell v2 will shiip included with Windows 7 and Windows 2008r2. It was announced at the MS POC last year that separate installs for previous versions of Windows for v2 will be q1 of next year.
Steven On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Reimer, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does anyone have a good reason why I should install this “patch” >> (Powershell) on my XP machines? > > I saw that, too. Declined for now. Especially given that the docs > say it can't be uninstalled. That seemed like a red flag to me. > > Is this PowerShell the same PowerShell that ships with later > releases of Windows? Or is missing functionality because it's for the > older XP? > > The release notes claim it only needs 8 MB on the hard disk. Does > it have any impact on RAM if you don't use it? I thought I remembered > reading somewhere that PowerShell was a big resource hog, so I didn't > want to install and discover I've just sacrificed 20 MB of RAM to > something I'll never use. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
