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Old thread, but I'd like to point at http://scoop.sh [1] which provides a command line package manager for Windows - and allows easy update of packages.

Chocolatey is similar in some ways, but scoop works hard to isolate installed apps from each others, and from other users (which can be good and bad). It's a little like an apt-like wrapper for binary-only (x)stow.

[1] scoop is hosted on github - the download url is on proper ssl, the bare scoop.sh domain presents a github-cert.