We started a journey to build a native package manager for Windows 10 when we announced the Windows Package Manager preview at Microsoft Build 2020. We released the project on GitHub as an open-source collaborative effort and the community engagement has been wonderful to experience!

Fun fact this project was stolen from a guy who poured hours of his life into an open source project only to be lead on by microsoft for a year and ghosted, at least until a couple months later MS suddenly announces WinGet and only offhandedly mentions AppGet.