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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/
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Tuesday December 26 2017, @02:22AM (1 child)
So this is what a sucking chest wound sounds like. Jam your fist in the hole Microsoft. Maybe you can stay alive another decade or so.
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