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SLW 20: WinGet with Demitrius Nelon

SLW 20: WinGet with Demitrius Nelon

Sliding Windows vor 3 Jahren

Demitrius Nelon and Thorsten Butz discuss the Windows Package Manager better known als WinGet. Demitrius is the product manager and head of the WinGet team at Microsoft. He provides insights about WinGets inspiration, security, integration, future plans.

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Demitrius Nelon is the product manager responsible for the Package
Manager for Windows which had its beginnings in Canada with an
independent software developer named Keivan Beigi, who inspired
Microsoft to create their own implementation. Keivan was guest on
the "Sliding Windows" podcast, episode 18. Demetrius talks about
his personal background and career journey, mentioning his service
in the U.S. Navy and his work at various technology companies,
including Microsoft, VMware, and Amazon. Prior to the employment of
Demitrius Microsoft saw the value in Keivans primal AppGet
implementation and used it as a template for their own package
manager, initially named AppInstallerCLI due to its positioning
under the umbrella of Microsofts sideloading application named
AppInstaller. During its early days the AppInstallerCLI/WinGet was
targeted as a package manager for developers. Demetrius joined the
team in December 2019, and the initial preview launch of WinGet
took place at the Build 2020 conference. He provides insights about
WinGets inspiration, security, integration, future plans.