Even though it has existed since the mid noughties, developers remain often uninformed and oblivious to its great power and versatility. With the great promise of continuous delivery and automated deployment, Powershell becomes a key tool on the Windows platform and something that aspiring developers should know and use.In this talk, I will introduce the Powershell language and its features, and relate it to programming language concepts that developers are familiar with. I will dive into the following topics:* Pure language features, like object orientation, pipelines, filters, functions and modules.* Characteristics of good build and deployment scripts and how to achieve these using Powershell