Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0

Users still clinging on to PowerShell 2.0 just received notice to quit as the command-line tool is officially leaving Windows.

The confirmation came in a Windows Insider update.

The move away from PowerShell 2.0 is a long time coming; Microsoft has for years encouraged users to move to later versions. Version 5.1 is preinstalled on most modern editions of Windows, and there is a newer, cross-platform version in the form of PowerShell 7.x.

However, version 2 lingered on in the name of backward compatibility, despite the fact it was deprecated in 2017.

PowerShell is a command line tool with a rich scripting language. Admins could use command.com to scratch that Command Line Interface (CLI) itch in the early days of Windows and MS-DOS, and Windows Script Host and a variety of command line interpreters were also available, but it wasn't until the debut of ...