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		y0ghur7_xxx on May 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PowerShell Specification licensed under the Commun... The language specification is only in docx[1]. Microsoft, just put an HTML page with the spec online. There is no need for a docx file for a language specification. [1]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=...

lloeki on May 9, 2011 [–]

You're lucky it's not in the Microsoft PDF killer format: XPS!

Still, I always wondered why they keep publishing stuff like this in a "working" format (doc, odt...) instead of a "distribution" format (ps, pdf...) .

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