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Windows Packages This really feels like Linux!

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W indows Packages! New way to install your applications, which does not include searching in the ocean of internet, downloading then installing and forgetting you downloaded an executable which occupying the space in drive like me. With this new Windows Packages user can install any application they need (should present in the Package repository) by running a command in the Command prompt, similar to Linux. We use Apt, Yum, RPM or DPKG in Linux shell to install packages, whereas here we use "winget' command to install the packages. Let's see how we can install Telegram Desktop with Windows Package manager. Simply by running  winget install telegram as you can see in the below screen shot. PS: Seriously Microsoft, limiting username to 5 letters is very bad idea. How to get this? Windows packages is still an implementing feature to future Windows 10 builds. But you can get this feature working by registering so called  "Micros