Microsoft Download Manager for Windows download

Microsoft Download Manager, developed by Microsoft, is a free app in the Download Managers category for Windows.

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Microsoft Download Manager

Requirements

Windows

Language

English

Available languages

Czech
Danish
German
English
Spanish
Finnish
French
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Dutch
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
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Chinese (Simplified)

License

Free

Latest update

2023-07-12

Author

Microsoft

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