So like Linux has been doing for years?

They should work on getting it right for their own stuff, first.

I mean...... what could go wrong?
spoiler: EVERYTHING

Yes but probably minus the good aspects.

I can't even trust microshit to let me plug a monitor in with their crap thinking it's a fucking speaker and changing all my defaults..

Nothing good will come from this lol

As in, a sort of App Store monopoly…?

Please no.

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.

Since at least the mid 90s.

If you could only be arsed to implement the Windows/Microsoft Store well enough to support this use case 13 years ago many of us wouldn't be Linux comrades today.

Switching the PC off when it was updating in the background and now the application will never run again on that PC, but continue to hold a license that can only be revoked from the application itself. Running out of hard disk because it for some reason fails to update the application and is now busy downloading it again for attempt #73, of course without cleaning up anything because that only happens after a successful update. Blocking applications daily or weekly because of updates, and of course you urgently need them now.

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.

Microsoft marketing is the epitome of "fuck up, move up", I'm convinced. I'm so glad I'm retired and don't have to deal with any of that bullshit anymore.

Optional for developers to push updates to their programs this way. Not a monopoly in any way.

Does this include winget? You can install things directly from any repo with it like an actual package manager.

Should have done that two decades ago.

And I want Windows and all its bullshit to heck off!

Fortunately I'm winning that one so far.

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On the one hand, it's about time - APT was released in 1998, and it wasn't even the first package manager.

On the other hand, I'm sure Microsoft will find a way to make it shit.