in reply to Fire a script on Windows from Linux
putty was last updated in late 2013 (1).
gitbash is more recent (2) and has ssh embedded.
1: http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/putty-announce/2013/000018.html
2:https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases/download/Git-1.9.4-preview20140611/Git-1.9.4-preview20140611.exe