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Re:Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Late... by Stratoscope on Friday November 18, 2016 @12:18PM (#12988292)
> Microsoft is expected to get rid of [Command Prompt] completely at some point in the future.

This is extremely unlikely to ever happen. As long as people have .cmd and .bat files they need to run, cmd.exe will still be around. They're not going to just remove it and break all those scripts.

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Re:Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Late... by JeffreySnover on Friday November 18, 2016 @09:24PM (#12991672)
That is right.

CMD.exe will be around to support script execution for a long long time.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]

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