winget Windows Package Manager
More info
- Creator
- Microsoft
- Released
- Type
- Official Windows package manager
- License
- MIT
- Source
- github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
Microsoft's official Windows package manager — preinstalled on Windows 11. winget install Mozilla.Firefox.
Manifests in YAML in the community repo microsoft/winget-pkgs. winget upgrade --all updates everything installed (if the package is in the repo). MSIX support, Store integration, sources from Microsoft Store + winget community + msstore. winget configure (2024) allows declarative state — Ansible-like for Windows. The launch ran over Chocolatey, which lost ~50 % of traffic in 2022–2024.