One interesting thing to note about the winget command line utility is that, at least in its current form, it is only being pitched as a Windows client operating system tool that is used to install software that developers and IT admins need. From the command line, the winget tool allows you to interact with the Windows Package Manager service to discover, install, upgrade, remove, and configure applications in preview versions of the Windows 10 operating system. It is essentially the client interface to the Windows Package Manager service. What is winget? Winget is part of the Windows Package Manager feature that is being introduced in preview form to Windows. At the Build 2020 developer conference, Microsoft announced the introduction of winget. However, the rub with Windows admins for decades now is that there is no native solution for package and software management in Windows. Chocolatey is a popular third-party add-on that offers similar software management functionality in Windows to what developers and admins get with Linux. There have been many tools that Windows Server administrators have relied on to come close to the functionality of Linux when it comes to package management.

Native Windows package management with winget Let's take a look at the new package management built into forthcoming versions of Windows, which are currently available in preview. Microsoft released major news at the Build 2020 developer conference about an exciting new feature coming to Windows-native package management.

While PowerShell has certainly made things much easier, it still does not equal the ease of the built-in package management functionality provided in most Linux distros.

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