Why does Microsoft allow this on their store?

1

Ninite

I did a bit of research on this. Their website (link) is actually just a crappy package installer, similar to Chocolatey without the cmd, or Ninite. So naturally, I tried to actually do stuff on their website. Not only do the requests to download stuff sometimes not exist, but when you get an MSI or EXE to download, it will pop up a message saying the msi protocol was disabled. I attempted this with the 7-zip installer listed on their website. But they also have a paid, pro version of a package installer....that installs OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE.

#Windows Tools #Package Manager #SSH 447 social mentions

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Chocolatey

I did a bit of research on this. Their website (link) is actually just a crappy package installer, similar to Chocolatey without the cmd, or Ninite. So naturally, I tried to actually do stuff on their website. Not only do the requests to download stuff sometimes not exist, but when you get an MSI or EXE to download, it will pop up a message saying the msi protocol was disabled. I attempted this with the 7-zip installer listed on their website. But they also have a paid, pro version of a package installer....that installs OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE.

#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 252 social mentions

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Apache OpenOffice

To add insult to injury, Apache only has the official download hosted on their openoffice.org site and has not partnered to allow it on the Microsoft Store.

#Office Suites #Office & Productivity #Project Management 13 social mentions