Windows 11 Store Gets Ninite-Style Multi-App Installer Feature (bleepingcomputer.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/05/1830216/windows-11-store-gets-ninite-style-multi-app-installer-feature
- Source link: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-store-gets-ninite-style-multi-app-installer-feature/
> The Microsoft Store on the web now lets you create a multi-app install package on Windows 11 that [1]installs multiple applications from a single installer . This means you can now install multiple apps simultaneously without having to download each one manually. The experience is similar to that of the third-party app Ninite, a package manager that lets you install multiple apps at once.
[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-store-gets-ninite-style-multi-app-installer-feature/
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To be fair, this option is part of the "Microsoft Store", so most users won't be subjected to that risk.
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You could say that of literally any installer. Whether it's well placed or not, you have to put some level of trust in the download source for most software you want to install. I'm not trying to endorse using this, but I fail to see how this is worse than the status quo. At least in this case you can probably trust Microsoft to not be malicious themselves, above and beyond anyone's general opinion. For them, this would be likely be about metrics or convenience lock-in.
Two pieces of malware (Score:2)
For the price of one.
Malware creators of the 90s used bundlers all the time.
The difference (Score:2)
The difference between this and Ninite is I have and will continue to use Ninite. Microsoft lost me back when Windows 8 crashed onto the scene.
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i never heard of ninite. a simple look at the website was enough for me to know i would never ever use this. why would i trust a random third party to fetch some unspecified versions of installers and bundle them into an executable to be run that with admin privilege on my machine?
this is just nuts, but why would you even want that? if you need bulk installs and images there are many sane options to do that.
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Ninite has been around for a very long time. Never had an issue with it. I first heard about it from a local computer store tech, hell, must have been at least 15 years ago now. I saved the package installers it created for me over the years. Now I have a nice catalog of period correct software for various computers I work on and restore. I don't use Windows any longer but it's nice to have available for friend's and family's Windows systems I maintain.
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> if you need bulk installs and images there are many sane options to do that.
Which I guess comes from random third parties that provide tools that installs software using admin privileges.
Ninite has been around 16-17 years now and if you haven't heard of it it's because of two things: 1. There has never been any issues with it security-wise, 2. No one expect you to know about every tool available.
And I have to ask, what was it about their website that made you dismiss the tool? Was it the absence of ads and fake download links, or its simple and clean design presenting everything yo
Who needs this? (Score:2)
Who really needs this? Nobody even needs win11 to begin with.
Just switch to Linux or mac already.
Mega ultra amazing (Score:2)
Count me among the stunned and amazed by this breathtaking achievement. Hard to believe technology has progressed to this point.
Yes now multiple malware installs in one. (Score:2)
Maybe they should just go all in on the npm or pip package route.
Download.com was doing this in the 2000s (Score:2)
Bonzee buddy is your friend!