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 ...

A new web front for the Microsoft Store is now live. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft launches redesigned website for ...

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 ...

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 receiving error code 0x80242020 when downloading apps from Microsoft Store or downloading games like Minecraft, etc. from Xbox App? It’s an annoying issue ...

Last week, I wrote about some upcoming changes to the Store app on Windows 10 that Microsoft is yet to announce, that will allow app developers to bring more kinds of Win32 apps to the Store in an ...

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 ...

If you want to update Minecraft Bedrock on PC, then these are the steps that you need to follow. To begin the process, just open the Minecraft Launcher application on your PC. From here, Select ...

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