PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment
PowerShell scripts are standard text files. With Windows Vista and earlier versions of Windows, the built-in editor was Notepad. While Notepad is perfect for quickly editing text files, and it is sufficient for writing scripts, a more robust editor would enable IT professionals to learn, create, and debug scripts more efficiently.
Windows 7 includes the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE), a graphical PowerShell development environment with debugging capabilities and an interactive console, as shown in Figure 1.