Microsoft has introduced a dedicated Command-Line Interface (CLI) for the Microsoft Store, allowing anyone to manage apps directly via the terminal. Microsoft today announced a new command-line ...

What just happened? Microsoft has announced several changes and enhancements coming to its official app store. The Microsoft Store can now provide additional app usage and health data, and there is a ...

Microsoft has released the open-source Windows Package Manager for developers and general users to install applications on Windows 10. The Windows Package Manager service and the winget.exe ...

The Windows community is a universe of uniformity in which users depend on robust commercial applications and standard graphical utilities. With the Vista release right around the proverbial corner, ...

Microsoft is releasing Windows App Development CLI (winapp) in public preview today. The open-source utility is aimed at Windows app developers, to make it easier to work across multiple frameworks ...

Edit on Windows is part of new improvements to the dev experience. Edit on Windows is part of new improvements to the dev experience. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering ...

Microsoft has always taken it on the chin when it comes to command-line power. After all, Windows' strength is supposed to be its graphical user interface, not a bunch of cryptic command-line tools.

If you want to use the command-line version of Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant (SaRA) on a Windows 11/10 computer, here is how you can do that. It is suitable for remote diagnostics of ...

Server 2008 continues Server 2003’s trend of giving sysadmins more and more command line utilities, and command-line versions of graphical tools. That’s great, because lots of times we need to write ...

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for Windows called Edit. Open source software may not earn the company direct ...