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It caught on very strongly in the Windows platform operations community - those of us who run Exchange, Active Directory, Windows Server in general for large enterprises. These businesses are just starting to poke at the cloud a bit, and will still have a lot of "traditional" Microsoft infrastructure for several years.

We're generally not as publicly chatty as developers, and don't tend to do Windows platform admin as a hobby. We have varying levels of programming experience.

For us, PowerShell has been nothing short of miraculous, though some people are put off by anything that's not a GUI. It's a shallow initial learning curve and easy enough for semi-automating some very repetitive user management tasks. The more skilled scripters can switch pretty easily into C# once they need the performance, because they already understand the .Net framework from mucking around with it in PowerShell.

And if you're ever at a small conference where Jeffrey Snover is speaking, say hi - he's generally eager to talk with PowerShell users.