Meet Microsoft, the champion of competitive marketplaces. Not a sentence you’d ever expect to read 20 years ago. But Microsoft’s Windows 11 event today made it clear that the company wants to position ...

Windows 10’s Microsoft Store has always been terrible. It was terrible when it debuted as the “Windows Store” alongside Windows 8. It remained terrible when the name changed to align with Microsoft’s ...

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If you don’t want to (or can’t) run Windows 11 on your PC, the good news is that Microsoft will be providing at least a few app updates to Windows 10 to keep it feeling useful. One of those app ...

Microsoft is relaxing its app store policies for Windows and the redesigned marketplace will meet the needs of customers and developers across a variety of app experiences. With Windows 11, Microsoft ...

No disrespect to the Microsoft Store, but it’s not the most exciting place to discover new Windows software. Peruse Microsoft’s official app store and you’ll mostly find the obvious, with apps like ...

Developers can now distribute their Windows desktop apps to people shopping through Windows 10’s app store, with an update from Microsoft Wednesday. It’s a move powered by Project Centennial, which ...

If you are getting the error message The app can’t update when it’s open when you try to open or reinstall a Microsoft Store app on your Windows 11/10 PC, you can ...