History of Windows PowerShell

By the year 2002, Microsoft started developing a new way of managing the command lines. It also included the development of a new Shell which was named Monad. A white paper published in the year of 2002, called Monad Manifesto. It contained the concept of this shell and the ideas to create a standardized platform which used the .NET framework through automation tasks.

The first display of Monad was made in Los Angeles at the Professional Developers Conference in 2003. Microsoft released the three beta versions of Monad on 17^th of June, 2005, 11th of September, 2005, and on 10^th of January 2006. Microsoft renamed Monad to a Windows PowerShell in April during the same year and made it as a core part of the Windows operating system.