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		Stratoscope on Nov 18, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell ... > Microsoft is expected to get rid of [Command Prompt] completely at some point in the future. This is extremely unlikely to ever happen. As long as people have .cmd and .bat files they need to run, cmd.exe will still be around. They're not going to just remove it and break all those scripts.

JeffreySnover on Nov 19, 2016 [–]

That is right.

CMD.exe will be around to support script execution for a long long time.

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]

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