Almost a meta comment, but Microsoft seems to be knocking their BUILD conference out of the park this year. I think we've already seen more notable announcements and improvements than we'll see at WWDC.<p>Just the fact that there was a talk about developing iOS apps by the founder of Xamarin is telling. The fact that he was wearing Google Glass is another...
This is actually pretty awesome. I liked package managers (using linux and Windows on dualboot), one of the best tools for Windows is Cygwin (using Linux commands in Windows).. Where i can automate a lot of (manual) work.<p>It seems to me that Microsoft is going all-in on open-source and flexibility.<p>If you are using Asp.Net, you should check out Owin and project Helios - <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/02/18/introducing-asp-net-project-helios.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/02/18/introducin...</a>
As a long time on-and-off chocolatey user: YAY!!!<p>I prefer *nix but at work I need to use Windows sometimes, Chocolatey is a HUGE step in the right direction. It boggled my mind that MSFT wasn't throwing money behind the project- it does loads to make Windows friendlier to developers who prefer CLI.<p>I hope they commit a person/team to evaluating/maintaining/cleaning up packages in the Chocolatey repo.<p>One question I have tho is why they don't just adopt Chocolatey/cinst (chocolatey install) directly? What's the purpose of get-command (besides ownership which is obviously important). Why not just fork/rebrand chocolatey? Or is that what's happening?
I wonder how this compares to PsGet (<a href="http://psget.net" rel="nofollow">http://psget.net</a>) - or is it simply a cmd-line wrapper around Chocolatey?
If you like your FOSS I can recommend MSYS2.<p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2" rel="nofollow">http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2</a><p>(disclaimer: I work on MSYS2)
for example
Install Sysinternals from PowerShell via OneGet
<a href="http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2014/04/install-sysinternals-from-powershell-via-oneget/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2014/04/install-sysinternals-from...</a>
This is cool. I'm a *nix guy but this actually compels me to learn PowerShell for those rare occasions when I'm working on a Windows machine.
I have been using Chocolatey for a while now without any regret.
OneGet probably won't match apt-get at first but this step is definitively in the right direction. If all software providers would provide their repository information updating programs would finally be a one-klick (or one command)-operation.
I'd love it if they added console tabs and text reflow / resizing to powershell<p>I use PS all the time - and it's killing me that I need 4+ windows open to account for all the different projects I've got to work on at the same time.
While I myself wold newer use windows for anything unless there was no other way, I hope that the stuff that Microsoft is doing might influence some windows people to start doing stuff the "right" way.