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We’ve been trying for ages, in the Linux world, to get away from the idea that you have to open up a command line to do anything complicated. Gnome and KDE have been making big strides toward this goal (Mac people may smile happily because they had this nailed 20 years ago*). And now what do we see? In the Windows Vista Self-Guided Tour over in Microsoft Technet, the first section of the tour begins:

1. Log on as administrator and start a command prompt by clicking Start, Run, and then typing command.
2. Create a new user account named Toby by typing Net user Toby /add. The account will be created with a blank password.

Amazing.

* Although not any more, since as has been said, what’s the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in. Then again, that was said by Jamie ‘now I use a Mac anyway’ Zawinski, so I don’t know what to think now.