[saw-lau]

TIL that curl is installed in Windows 10 and 11 - useful article for that alone!

[tssva]

Another one a lot of people don't realize ships with Windows 10 & 11 is tar. Specifically bsdtar which along with tar files can also create and extract zip files.

[legobmw99]

It’s not enabled by default, but under Optional Features you can also install an OpenSSH client, making tools like putty no longer necessary

[taskforcegemini]

curl on windows is my fallback to telnet (which is even less likely to be available on a clients windows computer) to quickly check connectivity and address resolution without having to install anything