Microsoft brings revamped Microsoft Store with Win32 apps to W10 testers

Microsoft has made the revamped Microsoft Store, which debuted with Windows 11, available to testers of Windows 10. The digital store contains a wider selection of apps than the Windows 10 Store.

Those who want to try the new store can sign up for the Windows 10 Release Preview Insider channel, inside the OS. That’s open to anyone, provided they enable some additional telemetry in the operating system. After that, the Store will be updated to the new version. The renovated store should be available to everyone ‘soon’, reports Rudy Huyn, principal architect of the MS Store on Twitter.

The new Store doesn’t have a drastically different design than its predecessor, but uses different conditions for the apps that can be published on it. Where apps such as Discord, VLC, Adobe Reader, LibreOffice, the Epic Games Store and Zoom were not available before, they can be found in the Store in Windows 11, and therefore also in the Store in Windows 10 after this update. The apps have not been ported to UWP, but the Store now offers Win32 apps, for example.

In the meantime, the release version of Windows 11 will be able to run Android apps in the near future. That will work through the new Windows Subsystem for Android and engaging the Amazon App Store. Those features are available in beta to users in America. Incidentally, a resourceful user has already gotten the Google Play Store working on Windows 11.

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