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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 ...

The Emotet malware is now distributed through malicious Windows App Installer packages that pretend to be Adobe PDF software. Emotet is a notorious malware infection that spreads through phishing ...

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.

One of the many benefits touted in the long list of reasons Windows Installer is so great is that the setup (MSI) files are actually structured databases. In addition to providing a universal schema ...

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 ...

Windows developers have long looked at Linux’s surfeit of package managers with envy. Having a simple command line tool like apt or rpm that would install an application and all its prerequisites ...

The popular Windows package manager WingetUI was recently renamed. The dev explained why that happened. Along with the name change, the app has also undergone a redesign for the UI and package engine.

No more DLL hell. That was just one of Microsoft Corp.’s goals when it introduced the Windows Installer service along with Windows 2000 nearly four years ago. The service, which now runs on Windows XP ...