Jean-Pierre Paradis's Blog: Monad's new name - Windows PowerShell

Today at the Microsoft Management Summit, Bob Muglia announced the new name for our new task-based command line shell and scripting language: Windows PowerShell (What do you think - like it?) Formerly known under the code-name "Monad", Windows PowerShell is now at the Release Candidate (RC1) milestone and will be fully baked in Q4 of 2006. However, you can download and evaluate the RC now.

[Source Windows Server Division WebLog]