Here's what went wrong with the Windows App Store and how Microsoft is trying to get things right for the future. But is it too late? I've been writing about technology for more than 15 years and ...

Microsoft thinks its new store app installer will make more people install and launch Windows apps. Microsoft thinks its new store app installer will make more people install and launch Windows apps.

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 ...

My new favorite Windows app made my PC safer and more reliable - and it's free ...

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 ...

How many of you have ever installed and run Android apps from Amazon's app store on Windows 11? Raise your hands. OK, that's what I thought. Well, I hate to break it to the three of you who raised ...

Microsoft has recently taken a significant step in phasing out its Windows 10 Mobile platform by quietly shutting down the core functionalities of its Microsoft Store app store on this platform. This ...

So how are things going over on the Mac App Store? What are developers noticing when their apps first go on sale there? Marzban Cooper, one of the team behind zen word processor OmmWriter, spoke to ...

Microsoft made a big deal a couple of years ago when it signed an agreement with Amazon to have Android apps available to be installed on Windows 11 computers. Users needed to install an Android ...