"There are two kinds of emacs users: those who start up emacs in a top-level window and use M-x shell to do shell work, and those who live in tcsh/ksh/bash and crank up emacs -nw to take over their console/terminal window.

"I was always in the former camp, and I believe that's the design point for Doug (Purdy)'s project. If you look up and down our hallway, all other remaining emacs users are in that former camp as well."

Microsoft "Chief Modeling Officer" Don Box

Full story http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1069

It is interesting to see Microsoft now realising the power of many tools which we take fro granted in Unix or GNU/Linux.

Shell - > Microsoft Power Shell Glade -> Avalon (XML to describe UI)

and now Emacs?

Cheers Praveen