Microsoft's PowerShell team is now contributing to the development efforts of the open source OpenSSH community.

The Microsoft PowerShell team will contribute to the OpenSSH community to create a way to use Windows PowerShell with SSH, for securely connecting to and managing computers running Windows and Linux.

In short, "the PowerShell team will support and contribute to the OpenSSH community." Yes, that's right. Microsoft will be contributing to the OpenSSH under its BSD-style open-source license.

OpenSSH rapidly rose to become the most popular SSH implementation in use, and Calvo said the PowerShell team will support and contribute to the open source Secure Shell developer community.

An upcoming version of Windows PowerShell will let users manage Windows and Linux computers through Secure Shell protocol and Shell session (better known as SSH), thanks to some new functionality ...

We shall see Anyhow, you may or may not remember my last attempt in my quest for SSH support directly within PSH. Needless to say my “feedback” has gone nowhere with the product group.

I cannot believe anyone would be excited about SSH being included with Powershell, as if Powershell holds a candle to BASH. Yeah, this is a whole 'nuther aspect of the whole Windows sadness.

It seemed like a simple enough task, write a PowerShell script to SCP files to a Unix server. There is just one problem. The .NET Framework doesn’t have a native way for doing this. That is why ...

An upcoming version of Windows PowerShell will let users manage Windows and Linux computers through Secure Shell protocol and Shell session (better known as SSH), thanks to some new functionality ...