> Microsoft’s Windows Package Manager has also tried to solve some of the problems with installing and updating apps on Windows
> but it’s not a widely used way to install and manage apps outside of power users and developers.
Nth time of ignoring what's there and instead building another system.
I mean, it is not that weird for MS to want to create a first party package manager. They definitely looked at existing stuff like Chocolatey etc. [0]
I think it is actually a good move for them to embrace supporting updates for all the non Windows Store stuff in a first party way. There is just way too much software that will never be a Windows Store application. Besides that, more trustworthy checks for malware etc. are included in such a first-party system than in what was already there, simply by having more available infrastructure. It also increases the chances that they can convince developers to move to using install/update libraries that play nice with this official package management tool.
At this point in time, I would definitely advise everybody to start out installing most Windows stuff via winget or if it isn't listed there via Chocolatey.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Package_Manager#Histor...