Microsoft’s new Windows Package Manager makes it easy to install applications by running a single command.

Here’s how to try the new ” winget ” command and why this Linux-style package manager is so exciting for the future of Windows 10.

For example, to install Microsoft PowerToys, you can open a terminal window and run ” winget install powertoys “.

For more details about how the Windows Package Manager works and Microsoft’s vision for the future of package management on Windows, read Microsoft’s Windows Package Manager Preview announcement and the official Windows Package Manager documentation.

In the future, none of this will be necessary and winget will be built right into all stable versions of Windows 10.

You can run winget from either Windows PowerShell or the classic Command Prompt environment.

To install an application, run the following command, replacing “name” with the name of the application:.

You’ll find everything from common Windows desktop applications to developer tools

Microsoft will surely add additional features to the Windows Package Manager in the future, and it’ll only get more powerful

With enough developer support, it might even enable a graphical package manager that’s everything we hoped the Windows Store would be, too—full of the desktop applications you actually want to use