Bert -

The Power Shell isn't mentioned much anywhere, although it's used by a lot of people in systems administration and to some extent for website design. The sources for books and stuff seem mostly mixed in with those subversives who use 'Nix and Sun and the like. It's mentioned fairly often at the MSDN (Microsoft Developers Network) and they tell you bits on how to write scripts sometimes, but don't tell you much about how to run them.

An example (without really recommending anything) for a place to find out about it is (maybe) at the rather weird publisher called Manning Publications. Even if you don't want a book on it, it might be interesting to take a look at the site. They have what they call the MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) where you can sign up to read chapters as the authors finish them, you can supposedly send your comments to the authors while they're still writing, and you get the book (or not) by download or hardcopy when (if?) it gets done. Nearly all their books seem to be available for download as PDFs if you'be bought the hard copy, or you can just buy the PDF or one or two other "digital" formats.

I bought one book, and downloaded the PDF, so I get their ads. Mostly I don't know what the $!#@% most of their stuff might be about, but some of it looks like it might be interesting if I wasn't too old and wore out to get into it.

John