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Kirk Munro

Try the PowerGUI Pro® 3.0 Beta today!

Today marks another exciting milestone for PowerGUI, as we release a public beta of PowerGUI Pro 3.0 to the web. We"™ve been working very hard on this release, and it includes a lot of new and improved features.  The highlights of this release are shown below. MobileShell Now Supports PowerPack Rendering A lot of our customers have been requesting this feature for a while (myself included!). With PowerGUI Pro 3.

Kirk Munro

Exciting PowerGUI® news at TechEd 2011 next week!

Next week I"™ll be at the TechEd 2011 conference in Atlanta. During this event I"™ll be doing an Ask the Experts session on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 in the Quest Software booth from 12:30-1:00PM. If you want to get the latest news on PowerGUI® Pro and PowerGUI®, come to that session! I have some really cool things I"™ve been dying to show you, so please stop by and say Hello! If you can"™t make that session, we"™ll be demoing PowerGUI Pro all week in the Quest booth, so stop by if you want a quick look at what we"™ve been working on.

Kirk Munro

Learn more about PowerShell at TechEd 2011

TechEd North America 2011 is coming up fast next month, so I wanted to let you know how you can learn more about PowerShell while at the conference. PowerShell has continually had a great presence at TechEd events, and this year is no exception. Just searching the TechEd schedule builder using the keyword “PowerShell” reveals 7 pre-event online webcasts, 2 pre-event virtual labs, 4 pre-con seminars, 2 birds of a feather discussions, 5 interactive discussions, 16 breakouts, and 9 hands-on labs this year!

Kirk Munro

Earth Day 2011 "“ PowerGUI® Style!

Today is Earth Day 2011, and you can celebrate your green side in style with the latest PowerGUI® wallpaper. As an ecoholic myself, this wallpaper is definitely among my favorites. Show your Earth Day pride, and download this beautiful desktop wallpaper today! If it doesn"™t suit your style, check out the rest of the desktop wallpaper images we have in the Wallpaper category on PowerGUI.org. There are plenty to choose from!

Kirk Munro

The 2011 Scripting Games have begun!

Today marks the beginning of Microsoft"™s 2011 Scripting Games. The Scripting Games are a great way to have fun learning more about Windows PowerShell. There are even great prizes available to be won. There are 10 events, with a beginner and an advanced category for each event. To participate, all you have to do is: Familiarize yourself with the information on the 2011 Scripting Games page. Register by signing in to the 2011 Scripting Games page on PoshCode.

Kirk Munro

Happy 4th Birthday PowerGUI®!

Today is PowerGUI“™s 4th birthday, and what would a birthday be without cake? The awesome graphic artists that provide me with all of our fun desktop wallpaper for PowerGUI have done it again with a new desktop wallpaper image to celebrate PowerGUI"™s birthday. You can download it from the downloads page on PowerGUI.org, or you can click on this picture to download a high-resolution version directly: It"™s hard to believe it"™s been 4 years already since PowerGUI was first made available for download on March 28, 2007.

Kirk Munro

Adam Driscoll talks about PowerShell and PowerGUI® on .NET Rocks!

Recently Adam Driscoll of PowerGUI VSX fame was a guest on the .NET Rocks! podcast show, chatting with Carl and Richard about his TFS plugin for Android, PowerShell, PowerGUI, and PowerGUI VSX. Today that show was made available for download, so head on over to the .NET Rocks! page listen to Adam, Carl and Richard in Episode 647 of .NET Rocks! Enjoy! Kirk out. Technorati Tags: PowerShell,PoSh,Poshoholic,PowerGUI,PowerGUI VSX,podcast

Kirk Munro

PowerGUI® Spring 2011 Desktop Wallpaper

Spring is here already, and even though it doesn"™t seem like it"™s Spring everywhere just yet (it has been snowing most of the day here in Ottawa), with the change in seasons comes a change in desktop wallpaper. The Spring 2011 wallpaper for PowerGUI Pro and PowerGUI is now available: To download this wallpaper, simply visit the PowerGUI downloads page and scroll down to see all of the sizes and varieties that are available.

Kirk Munro

PowerScripting Podcast with Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen

Last week Hal Rottenberg and Jonathan Walz recorded another great episode of the PowerScripting Podcast, this time with Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen as guests. Jeffrey and Kenneth talk about PowerShell of course, but also discuss the upcoming PowerShell Deep Dive event. You can find the link to listen to the podcast along with the show notes here. This podcast is a great source of PowerShell news and I highly recommend listening to it regularly.

Keith Hill

MVP Summit 2011

Testing out my first WordPress blog post after the switch from Windows Live Spaces (sniff, I will miss you) to WordPress. Regarding the MVP Summit last week, I can"™t really talk about much due to just about everything being NDA, NDA, NDA! I will say that I"™m excited about the future of PowerShell! Probably the most fun part was hanging out with the other PowerShell MVPs for a week. It seems to me that Microsoft still values their relationship with the MVPs as evidenced by the party they arranged for MVPs last Wednesday: