Learn more about the Microsoft Store, also called the Windows App Store, which allows you to choose from thousands of available apps to use on your Windows 10 or 8 device, including Surface laptops ...

You can also use the WinGet tool to uninstall apps installed on your device. To uninstall an application, you need to run ...

PC gaming via the Microsoft Store can be a pain: game updates can lag, and mod support may be limited. But Microsoft is testing at least one small improvement: modular downloads of games via the ...

The Microsoft Store can now simultaneously download multiple apps in a batch file, a capability that Ninite has been providing for over a decade.

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 ...

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 ...

If you are an avid Windows OS user, you are used to downloading the software installer from the web and run it to install the application on your system. From Windows 8.1, Microsoft introduced a new ...

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 ...

Are you unable to install some apps in Microsoft Store, and you see This app will not work on your device error message? Some Windows users keep seeing this error ...

In 2012, Microsoft jumped the shark with Windows 8, releasing an ambitious, touch-first desktop OS to a world that didn't want or see the need for one. The company has spent years undoing all the bad ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Epic is adding five new PC apps to its Epic Games Store launcher today, in a fresh bid to offer more than just ...

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