Fire up "cmd" in Windows XP and have a play around with the shell. Let's be honest, the shell is sh... rubbish. Fear not, however, for a new Microsoft Command Shell, or MSH for short, is on the way. Arse... sorry, Ars Technica, have taken a look at it.One for the sysadmins and code monkeys, but worth a read if it's your kind of thing.This is a moderately technical overview and it contains content that may be difficult for nonprogrammers to grasp, so those of you that don't have a background in software development may want to skip around and ignore some of the technical details. Rest assured, there is plenty of content here for regular users and system administrators as well as coders. The code samples are instructive by themselves, so if you get really bored, perusal of the examples will illuminate many of the features of MSH and save you some time.