Microsoft re-statement: Will provide SSH

Computer store news: Microsoft announced that it will restart the development of its own SSH client for the Windows platform. Microsoft intends to let users use the application developed by its PowerShell team without having to rely on third-party applications. Its purpose is to help users manage Windows and Linux systems more easily.

Group Software Engineering Manager Angel Calvo notes that this is the third time Microsoft has tried to provide such an application. Compared with the previous two attempts, this attempt is more likely to succeed in response to the company's corporate culture. Microsoft has chosen to develop its application based on the OpenSSH development kit under the BSD license. The OpenSSH project was launched in 1999 by the OpenBSD development team and is known for its well-written, secure, and maintainable code.

Microsoft's Jeffrey P. Snover commented on the announcement that Microsoft will provide an SSH client that includes an SSH client and a Windows version, where SSHD is the server-side portion used to host SSH sessions. This means that complete secure communication can be implemented on a Windows machine, regardless of whether the communication was initiated or terminated.

The Microsoft collaboration with OpenSSH seems to be in the early stages of interaction on Twitter. As a commentator on Hacker News pointed out (squiguy7), OpenSSH developers didn't seem to know Microsoft's decision until the announcement. Despite this, Snover said on Twitter yesterday that Microsoft hopes to enable OpenSSH to be deployed on a variety of Windows platforms. It is not clear which specific platforms can be deployed.