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Dreading? I doubt it. It's a relief when the problem your library solves no longer needs solving!

No, can't you see? Microsoft is going to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Chocolatey!!! /s

If it was just a free library that would be one thing but they have a company with multiple employees.

I won't say it was silly to ever make Chocolatey, but it was living on borrowed time from day one.

What's interesting to me about this announcement is that it seems to replace something they already had; Microsoft released OneGet several years ago and was positioning it (I thought) the same way they are positioning this. It's in maintenance mode now. So I would say Chocolatey is doomed only if this actually sticks.

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