Microsoft upgraded the WinGet 1.4 package manager to add support for .zip packages

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen South China Wu Yanzu for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com January 24 Microsoft today upgraded Windows Package Manager (WinGet) to add support for.zip packages. In the latest version 1.4, support is provided for extracting and running installers from Zip archives, or installing one or more portable packages from zip packages.

The WinGet open source community is also pushing other new features, and if you use multiple package managers, the upcoming command alias feature will help you remember. A "wait" parameter will also be added to keep winget.exe open for invocation in other applications.

CTOnews.com Small Classroom: Windows Package Manager is a free and open source package manager developed by Microsoft for Windows 10. It consists of a command-line utility and a set of services that install the application. Independent software vendors can use it as a distribution channel for software packages.

Users can discover, install, upgrade, remove, and configure applications on Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers using the winget command-line tool. This tool is the client interface to the Windows Package Manager service.