2.2. The GUI Emphasis in Windows
One of the guiding principles when Microsoft moved from the character-based DOS operating system to Windows was that graphical user interfaces provided ways to carry out tasks that were much more convenient than when using DOS-based command line tools. Users had problems finding, understanding, or remembering command line commands and their switches and parameters. The GUI metaphor worked better than the command line, at least for those users who were unable (or unwilling) to master the syntax of command line tools.
For many tasks, the GUI-based approach undoubtedly works well. For other tasks, particularly system administration tasks, GUI tools can be productive when used on a small scale but become extremely tedious to use when the same task has to be carried out on a dozen, a hundred, or a thousand machines.
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