I think PowerShell was a great idea with weak execution. The real issue is that the OS and many Windows services (like IIS) weren't built to be managed via the

I think PowerShell was a great idea with weak execution. The real issue is that the OS and many Windows services (like IIS) weren't built to be managed via the command line. They're gradually adding support for it, but not in a standardized way. Configuration and management on Linux is anything but standardized, but it's almost always as simple as changing the right line in the right file in /etc. Also, the ecosystem is so large and mature that tools have been built to make things simpler. You can manage Windows machines via PowerShell, but that doesn't mean it's easier in practice than SSH and Linux -- particularly given the toolsets (Chef/Puppet/etc) that have been created around it.