The Windows app store has taken many forms over the years, first launching with Windows 8 in 2012 as the "Windows Store," a marketplace for "modern" apps that never fully materialized. The store was ...

After weeks of teasers and leaks, Windows 11 is official. Messy livestream aside, it looks like a sweet update. Though a leaked build revealed some of what was to come, and the OS upgrade doesn’t look ...

While consumers and developers have enjoyed free access to the developer’s preview of Windows 8 for a few months, precious little information surrounding Microsoft’s promised online app store was ...

With the launch of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft has embraced the age of the app and opened its own app store — the Windows Store. Like Apple’s iOS App Store and Google’s Android Market, ...

Microsoft's goal for the Windows app store was to make it easy to find and download apps, which sounds simple but was a challenge given the array of programs likely to pop up. Lance Whitney ...