PowerShell V3 has finally arrived (Yippie ya ya;). A first preview version is part of the Windows 8 Developer Preview and of course the Windows 8 Server preview (available on MSDN and the Windows 8 preview is available here).
Yesterday (a week after the first release) the PowerShell Team finally blogged about it:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2011/09/20/windows-management-framework-3-0-community-technology-preview-ctp-1-available-for-download.aspx
The direction the PowerShell team is taking with PowerShell is really amazing. Who thought about workflows in the admin world a couple of years ago? (I wonder if they have anything to do with the Dynamic System Initiative?).
And good, old WMI is getting more and more attractive (I never felt that I wanted to write my own WMI provider but having the ability to do so is probably a good thing).
I wonder what role the new release will play at the PowerShell Deep Dive next month in Frankfurt/Germany (which I am really looking forward too).

PowerShell V3 - the first sighting (its really version 3.0 and even WsMan had been enhanced)
Update: A few installation hints
>As stated in the readme-file: The preview can’t be installed on a non-english Windows 7 SP1
>.NET Framework 4.0 runtime must be installed first – if its not installed, there won’t be any error message – the installation of the preview runs through but it won’t get installed
>After a sucessful install the preview version replaces the existing PS 2.0 – the year of the copyright is a good indicator to check wether the preview had been installed or not