"Monad" a region of your body in which you want to avoid being kicked.
Don't you mean "Gonads"?
I actually like it. It conveys what it is much better than Monad.
If they had kept Monad it would be 2010 before most sys admins bothered to look at it.
Gotta disagree. This is one of the few recent Microsoft product names that is absolutely great. Monad? Yechhh!
I can't say that Monad was much better, but I do think that PowerShell just sounds like some cheap tool that someone just threw together on a weekend.
It's "PowersHell" - an infernal name ;-)
PowerShell is a great name.
Monad is a code-name not a product name
I don't know if it is a "great" name, but the name says what it is ... to those (a big chunk of the target users) who think of the command line as a "shell".
Monad could be two abreviations stuck together. Mo(re) Go(nad)s
Andrew: Hehe - I didn't think about that :) (the 2nd one, that is)