So like Linux has been doing for years?
Yes but probably minus the good aspects.
Hey, if it means I don’t have to pick between five ways to package the same app I may call it a wash.
Of course Windows already has two of those and one sucks.
I’m really torn on this one because I don’t necessarily want every app to have to keep a service or do a launch check for updates every time, I’d rather have a single update manager. That’s better. But I don’t want Windows to know everything I have installed and whether or not it’s updated and to pester me with updates of zombie apps I haven’t used in years. That’s worse.
I guess it comes down to implementation. So knowing MS’s track record I am not holding my breath here.
As any current or former Windows admin will know - they can barely handle Windows OS updates without breaking something major every other month.
I mean on the one hand it would be good to do away with all the duplicated efforts of in-app automatic updaters and app ‘agents’ that tie up background resources. But colour me jaded, i think this will just be a walled garden that app developers have to pay to opt into, and will mean users lose control over which apps they trust to update without thinking, and which they selectively update after a ‘hmm i better just check they didnt cause any major bugs’ search. A new revenue stream for MS is the primary goal.
Winget?
Microsoft trying is darndest to comfort me in my decision to move to linux ʘ‿ʘ
As in, a sort of App Store monopoly…?
Optional for developers to push updates to their programs this way. Not a monopoly in any way.
They should work on getting it right for their own stuff, first.
No no no, you see, you have One Note and One Note for Windows 10, so you can, you know, use it in Windows 10… I mean yes you can install One Note but One Note for Windows 10 is better integrated with Outlook but the one thats already installed.
Is that Outlook or Outlook (New)?
