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Wednesday, April 15
 

9:15am PDT

State of the Shell (PowerShell 7.6)
Wednesday April 15, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am PDT
PowerShell 7.6 delivers a strong iteration of the platform, focused on quality, security, performance, and the refinements that come from steady, community-driven development. In this year's State of the Shell, the PowerShell Team will walk through what’s landing in 7.6 LTS, highlight meaningful changes across the engine, modules, and ecosystem, and share how ongoing investments in DSC v3, the AI-enhanced experience, and cross-platform reliability are shaping the next phase of PowerShell.
 
This session is equal parts roadmap, reveal, and open conversation. If you want to understand where PowerShell is headed—and influence what comes next—this is the room to be in. Your questions, scenarios, and critiques directly shape the future of the shell. Join us and help drive the next generation of PowerShell.
Speakers
avatar for Michael Greene

Michael Greene

Principal PM Manager, Microsoft
Michael Greene is a Principal Product Development Manager (PDM) Manager at Microsoft leading great people across the teams responsible for PowerShell, Azure CLI, Desired State Configuration, OpenSSH, and System Center. With more than two decades at Microsoft, his work has spanned... Read More →
avatar for Steven Bucher

Steven Bucher

Product Manager, Microsoft
Product Manager on the Azure Resource Management Team, responsible for PowerShell 7, AI Shell, SSH and helping with ARC Connected machines. 
avatar for Jason Helmick

Jason Helmick

Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft
Wednesday April 15, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am PDT
Meydenbauer Center - Room 404 11100 NE 6th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA
 
Thursday, April 16
 

9:15am PDT

PowerShell: Designed for a Messy World
Thursday April 16, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am PDT
Corporate dysfunction is a fact of life. We see it in: siloed teams, keynote-driven projects that are abandoned after announcement, promotion-focused developers delivering checkbox features and ignoring admin needs. 
I tried to fix those problems but knew that I would fail, so I also designed PowerShell to route around the damage.
This is a case study in pragmatic design. I'll show how PowerShell's core architecture directly attacks these predictable failures. You'll see how the Adaptive Type System normalizes the 'Not-Invented-Here' data problem, how pipeline binding-by-property-name bridges the silos created by Conway's Law, and how deep extensibility empowers the community to finish the job the corporation won't. This is the story of designing for the world we have, not the one we wish we had.
Speakers
avatar for Jeffrey Snover

Jeffrey Snover

Distinguished Engineer, Google
Jeffrey Snover is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the Chief Architect for Azure Storage and Edge Cloud Group where he focuses on Azure Stack. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell... Read More →
Thursday April 16, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am PDT
Meydenbauer Center - Room 404 11100 NE 6th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA
 
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