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posted by Fnord666 on Monday December 25 2017, @10:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-don't-wget-it dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Microsoft plans to integrate the command line tools tar and curl in the next feature update of Windows 10, out in March 2018.

While we don't know the full name of the next feature update yet, it is clear that it will feature major improvements and additions unlike the rather bleak Fall Creators Update.

Microsoft did mention previously that it plans to publish a major update and later on in the year another update that refines it (see Too many Windows 10 feature updates for an opinion piece on that release strategy).

It is pretty clear though that Microsoft is turning Windows 10 into a jack of all trades system. After adding SSH client and server support in the Fall Creators Update, it now revealed that tar and curl support are coming to Windows 10 as well.

Linux users may shrug their shoulders at this point as the two command line tools have been part of Linux for a long time.

Source: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12/21/windows-10-tar-and-curl-support/


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 25 2017, @10:45PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 25 2017, @10:45PM (#614159)

    Why wait until March 2018 when you could have had these in March 2008 ... or even earlier.

    Will Win 10 telemetry parse the results of tar and curl before your script does?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 26 2017, @11:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 26 2017, @11:41AM (#614259)

    You could've had these on Windows back in 1998. Cygwin and gnuwin32 have been around for a while.