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.

Using a package manager to install software is something that will be familiar to Linux users, but it's not something that has been an option for anyone running Windows. But now this has changed since ...

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 ...

Windows 10's Winget package manager is an excellent tool for installing popular applications, but it only works from the command line. To make it easier to find apps and install them, third-party ...

If you use a Windows 11 PC, chances are you're used to downloading your programs the same way you always have. You type the name of the program into Google, open the ...

The Node.js Package Manager (or just npm) allows the author of a malicious package to infect other packages and propagate malicious scripts across the npm ecosystem and in the builds of legitimate ...

Microsoft has released the first stable version of the native Winget Windows 10 package manager that helps you manage applications directly from the command line. Just as other package managers ...

Developer of AppGet was fine with Microsoft copying his project for WinGet, but annoyed it didn't bother crediting him. Microsoft has now admitted it failed to give due credit to Canadian developer ...

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 ...