[ForHackernews]

Is this author a real person who was really a senior exec at Microsoft? If this piece isn't a parody, it's deeply revealing of what's going on in that company, but probably not in the way he intended.

[ileight2]

Yeah Jeffrey Snover was the designer for PowerShell (among a few other things there).

[chvid]

For Microsoft and its employees I hope it is a parody.