A meaty OS serving: InfoWorld Chief Technologist has sliced into Beta 3 of Microsoft's long-awaited Longhorn and found plenty to chew on. Major advances center on PowerScript, Microsoft's .Net command-line shell, which is accompanied by utilities that enable robust administration from the PowerShell command line or via text-only connections, he writes. The firewall's been spruced up, and the last pieces of Longh A meaty OS serving: InfoWorld Chief Technologist has sliced into Beta 3 of Microsoft’s long-awaited Longhorn and found plenty to chew on. Major advances center on PowerScript, Microsoft’s .Net command-line shell, which is accompanied by utilities that enable robust administration from the PowerShell command line or via text-only connections, he writes. The firewall’s been spruced up, and the last pieces of Longhorn’s virtualization story have fallen into place. Beefy!Meanwhile, Enterprise Windows columnist Oliver Rist, still weary from his Vista adventures, has reluctantly set down the Longhorn path, and he has insights to share.Broadband banditry: Over in The Deep End, Paul Venezia investigates broadband banditry: broadband companies’ practice of artificially limiting bandwidth options. “One of the major issues is the ridiculously limited upstream bandwidth provided in most residential packages,” he notes. “Consumer broadband needs to change. It needs to provide at least a 5:3 down/up ratio as part of the standard package for a reasonable price.” Technology Industry