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Jeffrey Snover
Creator of PowerShell
Paste this into PowerShell:
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SysAdminDoc/ThankYouJeffrey/refs/heads/main/ThankYouJeffrey.ps1 | iex
This is a cinematic console experience celebrating Jeffrey Snover's retirement - the visionary who created PowerShell and fundamentally changed how we manage systems.
What better way to say thank you than with the very tool he created?
In 2002, Jeffrey Snover wrote the Monad Manifesto - a document that outlined a revolutionary new approach to system administration. Instead of parsing text output like traditional shells, this new shell would pass objects through the pipeline.
Four years later, PowerShell 1.0 was released to the world.
Fast forward to 2016, and PowerShell became open source, running on Linux and macOS. What started as a Windows-only tool became a truly cross-platform automation powerhouse.
Now, in 2025, Jeffrey Snover retires, leaving behind a legacy that has touched millions of system administrators, developers, and DevOps engineers worldwide.
| Year | Milestone |
|---|---|
| 2002 | The Monad Manifesto is written |
| 2003 | Project Monad begins at Microsoft |
| 2006 | PowerShell 1.0 released |
| 2009 | PowerShell 2.0 - Remoting & Modules |
| 2012 | PowerShell 3.0 - Workflows |
| 2016 | PowerShell goes Open Source |
| 2016 | PowerShell runs on Linux & macOS |
| 2018 | PowerShell Core 6.0 |
| 2020 | PowerShell 7 - The unified shell |
| 2025 | Jeffrey Snover retires |
For giving us a shell that thinks in objects.
For making automation accessible to everyone.
For building a community that spans the globe.
For 20+ years of innovation.
Enjoy your well-deserved retirement!
PS C:\> Write-Host "Goodbye, and thank you!" -ForegroundColor Cyan
Goodbye, and thank you!