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 ...

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 ...

One command fixed my broken Microsoft Store downloads.

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 ...

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 ...

After the March update for Windows 11, some users were unable to log in to apps like Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Store ...

Over the last three years, we have experienced the appification of everything. It began with the launch of the iOS App Store in July 2008, and was perpetuated with the introduction of the Android ...

Good thing I reserved a dose of skepticism for those Windows 8 App Store screenshots that surfaced earlier this month, because they turned out to be a sham. According to iStartedSomething, the images ...

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 ...

Microsoft's new native app team will ditch web wrappers for faster, more responsive Windows 11 software. The shift tackles ...

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 ...

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 ...