PowerShell is Central to Everything Microsoft

So how important is Windows PowerShell? Well for starters, Windows PowerShell grabbed three of the top ten TechEd 2014 talks in Houston this year. PowerShell.Org printed out 3,000 DSC Resource guide books to hand out at the Scripting Guys booth, and to give out in presentations – they were gone in two days. In addition, there have been more than 10,000 downloads of the electronic version from the web site. At the Scripting Guys booth this year, we talked to more than 5,000 people during the week. This equates to like ½ of all attendees at TechEd – and after the first two days, we had nothing to give away – but people came to talk to Windows PowerShell people. This is incredible.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/06/02/powershell-predict-the-future-via-teched.aspx