If you’re really, really sick of the Microsoft Store, Microsoft now offers a return to the glorious days of the command line interface. Meet App Installer, Microsoft’s new package manager for Windows.

You need to start using Windows' overlooked package manager.

It’s finally happening. Microsoft is giving developers a command line interface to install their favorite tools. That’s right — at Build 2020 today, Microsoft announced Windows Package Manager in ...

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Windows Package Manager is a free and open source utility from Microsoft that allows you to download, install and manage apps from the command line in Windows 10 or Windows 11. First introduced in ...

In case you weren’t clear on the extent to which tech companies are intent on bringing AI to everything, Microsoft has even added an optional AI layer to copy & paste functionality for Windows ...

Windows 10 will actually come with a package manager. Yes, in Windows 10 you can open up a command line shell and install VLC or Firefox or thousands of other packages by typing in a single command.

If you've ever spent any time using today's best Linux distros then you'll be familiar with the idea of a package manager. And when you switch over to using Windows 10 you probably miss that package ...

Microsoft has released a new version of Windows Package Manager - or winget - for users trying out the preview. This update brings it to version 0.3, and it includes a handful of useful additions, ...

Windows Package Manager, also known as winget, is a utility that you can use to manage software packages on Windows devices via the Command Prompt. For example, you can type in winget install ...

A logic flaw between Ubuntu's 'command-not-found' package suggestion system and the snap package repository could enable attackers to promote malicious Linux packages to unsuspecting users. Malicious ...

Looking for a tool to automate installing, configuring, upgrading and uninstalling software packages on Windows systems? Time to check out Chocolatey. I’ve administered both Windows and Linux systems ...