As you're probably well aware, Windows doesn't have the elegant package management system that Linux users have enjoyed for decades. Microsoft's built-in package managers for Windows, Winget, solved ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has numerous package managers.There are command-line and GUI tools for the task.Not all package ...

Microsoft has released the open-source Windows Package Manager for developers and general users to install applications on Windows 10. The Windows Package Manager service and the winget.exe ...

Microsoft has finally revealed a long requested feature; a Windows package manager called Winget that allows you to easily install applications from the command line. Commonly used in Linux to install ...

If you are not using a package manager on your Windows system to install applications and other software, you should. Period. End of story. Searching for, downloading, and installing applications ...

Have you ever wondered how easy it would be if every time you upgraded to a new operating system, changed your computer, or reinstalled the old operating system, you could type a command, and all the ...

In the Linux world, package managers catalog and install the software available in a given Linux distribution. Until recently, Microsoft Windows software management wasn’t that centralized. There was ...

Nothing says sexy like I use a package manager to install apps instead of double-clicking boring executables. It just rolls off the tongue. But there is something fun about installing and updating ...

The WinGet command, which taps into the Windows Package Manager, makes it a breeze to keep applications up to date in Windows 10 and 11. Here’s how to use it. For more than two years, I’ve been ...

At its Build 2020 conference, which had to be held as an online-only event this time around due to the coronavirus outbreak, Microsoft had a bunch of announcements to make, some of which include new ...

Installing a bunch of applications at once on Windows can be annoying. You need to find the installer packages, download them, then run them all, one after another ...

Microsoft released an updated version of Windows Package Manager. The package manager is known to users as WINGET, and it’s available for both Windows 11 and Windows 10. Now, with the new release, ...