
You can then scroll down the list and find the OpenSSH Client (Beta) and OpenSSH Server (Beta) features in Windows. If you do not want to watch go to “Manage Optional Features” then + “Add a feature”. Since this is not the best-documented feature, and still one in Beta, we made a quick video of the installation process.

There is a new beta feature in Windows 10 that may just see the retirement of Putty from many users: an OpenSSH client and OpenSSH server application for Windows.

The newly re-invigorated Microsoft is changing how easy it is to interface with Linux (and other *NIX flavors) significantly with features like Ubuntu on Windows. For years, Apple MacBooks have been the go-to choice for many admins partly because getting to a ssh shell is so easy. Ask just about any *NIX admin using a Windows laptop and they will have come across Putty.
