Sadly, deployment of Python (or Ruby, Perl, etc) is horrific pain at scale. If you are automating a large organization -- Powershell has one massive edge, alre

Sadly, deployment of Python (or Ruby, Perl, etc) is horrific pain at scale. If you are automating a large organization -- Powershell has one massive edge, already deployed and able to be managed sanely via the domain management tools with a permission model around it. Some large (30k+ machine) organizations actually have fairly decent sized research projects on best ways to automate deployments and system management. It ends up being far trickier than it appears on the surface and any tool blessed by MS and shipped by default has a huge edge. Powershell might not be great -- but it is already on the machine and the competition is batch files.