This follow up article <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/28/appget_replaced_by_winget_says_dev/> on WinGet, besides talking about a developer who feels Microsoft unfairly copied his ideas, also mentions the many and varied other attempts at providing package-management type services for Windows: ... Senior program manager Demitrius Nelon said: "What about _insert any other package manager here_? We think they are great... We have already talked with a few of the well-known package manager teams. Chocolatey has a vibrant community with a massive collection of applications, and a rich history supporting both open-source and enterprise customers. Scoop provides a convenient way to allow software to be installed without the UAC popups. Ninite keeps an eye on updates for all the apps it installed. There are many others like AppGet, Npackd and the PowerShell-based OneGet package manager-manager." (Interesting omission of NuGet, though.) I think Ninite was the one that received a cease-and-desist from Adobe for trying to wrap the latter’s installers in its own format. Which points up the fundamental flaw in all these approaches: proprietary vendors simply do not want unified package-management systems.