Monad = Windows PowerShell
So "Monad" has just been given a new name of Windows PowerShell, at least it takes a bit of the guess work out of identifying its usage ;-)
The Windowsserver blog has more details – why should you be interested, well new products like Exchange (E12) use it, the line from the blog IMO that is most important is “Basis of next-generation Windows administrator experience that provides command line and graphical user interface (GUI) integration – all commands in Exchange Server 2007 can be completed from either the GUI or the command line”. I know of at least one other future product (there will be more) that will also use Windows PowerShell (not that I can mention its name for a few months…but I will when I can).
Download WindowsPowerShell RC1 from here for the x86 version, here for x64 or you guessed it here for ia64
I also found these script sites https://scripts.readify.net/ and https://www.reskit.net/monad/samplescripts.htm I'm sure there must be many more - anyone have any favourites yet?