[temp-dude-87844]

Windows 10 has a "package manager", of course, that's quite good, but both user culture, developer disinterest, and years and years of inertia keeps it from being used for enough things to cross the network-effect side of some treshold of "worthwhile".

The 'download | execute' paradigm, on the other hand, is the complete antithesis of package management, to where your desire to obtain and execute the code trumps your willingness and patience to wait until it has been vetted by your preferred package manager, and installed in a less haphazard way. I fail to see your point.

[sjellis]

If you are referring to the package management stuff in PowerShell, that's just a unified interface to several different package management systems, each of which handles specific types of packages. Windows has MSI, VSIX, PowerShell modules and probably some others as well, all of which are separate from Microsoft Update.