I'm right there with you not wanting to learn a new shell, however PS is written against the .NET Windows API. The new stuff you'd have to learn would be Window

I'm right there with you not wanting to learn a new shell, however PS is written against the .NET Windows API. The new stuff you'd have to learn would be Windows specific, sort of like learning AppleScript. Also, PS has traditional unix shell commands built in now, like grep and ls.