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 ...

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

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 ...

GitHub is a vast labyrinth of amazing open-source software projects, and it can be hard to see some of the awesomeness within ...

Microsoft has added a new unique identifier to Windows 8.1 to help app developers better monetize their apps, the company said today. “Specifically, in Windows 8.1 we include a unique identifier that ...

Windows 11 KB5085516 is rolling out to address major issues affecting internet connectivity in some apps after the March 2026 ...

Much like mobile operating systems, Microsoft offers a unified store to easily install Windows apps, known as the Microsoft Store. While it wasn't that great at first, over the years, many of the core ...