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I'm clearly running powershell v2.0.x on Windows 7.

PS C:\> $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
CLRVersion                     2.0.50727.5444
BuildVersion                   6.1.7601.17514
PSVersion                      2.0
WSManStackVersion              2.0
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0}
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.1

So why is $pshome pointing to a directory named v1.0?

PS C:\> $pshome
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0

Should I just file this under "Business as usual" for microsoft? :-)

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This is for backwards compatability. V1 scripts should run with little or no changes. Until there are major changes to the version of .NET that PowerShell is built against, the plan seems to be to stick with "1".

Notice the extension is still .ps1 as well

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Thanks... this still sounds silly. – Randy James Jun 2 '11 at 16:17
"Major" is usually characterized by a X.0 shift. :-) Oh well... – Randy James Jun 2 '11 at 16:17
powershell 2.0 is a major version of powershell but the framework is still the same – Jim B Jun 2 '11 at 16:22
c:\windows\system32 on a 64 bit system, same thing. Windows 7's version number is really 6.1.xxxx, same thing. Microsoft doesn't really care about what's intuitive. – Shane Madden Jun 2 '11 at 19:22
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They care less about being intuitive, and more about not pissing off enterprise users that have hard-coded/made assumptions. – Daniel Richnak Jun 3 '11 at 2:25
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