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Microsoft’s Microsoft Store has quietly become the easiest — and safest — way to make Windows 11 actually look like something you want to use, thanks to a freshly launched Themes department that centralizes hundreds of downloadable themes and simplifies applying them with a single click. The...

Microsoft has quietly reshaped how Windows users find and apply desktop looks by adding a dedicated Personalization/Themes department inside the Microsoft Store — a move that centralizes more than 400 theme packs (including roughly 35 new ones at launch) into the Store experience and routes...

Microsoft is moving a long-familiar corner of Windows personalization into the Microsoft Store: the company has begun rolling out a new Themes (personalization) department inside the Microsoft Store on Windows, offering a curated catalogue of themes — more than 400 entries, including roughly 35...

Microsoft’s official Microsoft Store Awards 2025 announcement landed as a clear manifesto: this year’s winners were chosen and presented by Microsoft with an unmistakable emphasis on AI-driven apps — and the decision to skip a public nomination and community-voting phase has left developers...

Among Us is one of the quickest multiplayer pick‑up games to install and play on Windows, and you can be in a lobby within minutes whether you use Steam or the Microsoft Store — but a few small setup choices and connection tweaks will save time and frustration. This feature walks through...

When the Microsoft Store gets stuck on the spinning “Working…” indicator it’s more than an annoyance — it blocks app installs, stalls updates, and can break workflows that depend on UWP/MSIX applications. The problem usually traces to a handful of recurring causes (corrupted Store cache, stalled...

Microsoft’s decision to end support for Office apps installed via the Microsoft Store is a tidy, pragmatic engineering move — but it arrives wrapped in real-world friction for millions of users and IT teams who now face differing timelines, migration choices, and a confusing mix of messaging...

Microsoft's quiet move to surface a dedicated App updates pane inside Windows 11 Settings marks a meaningful shift: for the first time, the operating system itself can discover and manage updates for Store-managed apps without relying on the Microsoft Store client UI, and Microsoft is explicitly...

The empty, glass-fronted retail box that once carried Microsoft’s brand into high streets around the world has quietly become a physical symbol of a bigger failure: a direct-to-consumer playbook that never quite worked and whose casualties now include a flagship Sydney storefront reportedly...

Microsoft is quietly testing a dedicated App updates page inside the Windows 11 Settings app that aims to centralize Store-managed application updates alongside operating system updates — a small UI change with outsized implications for users, IT admins, and the Microsoft Store's strategic...

The Amazon Alexa app for PC promised a convenient way to bring the full Alexa experience to your desktop: voice control, smart‑home management, lists and reminders, and Echo device sync — all without pulling out your phone. In practice, installing and using Alexa on Windows has become a mixed...

Windows 11’s Microsoft Store has quietly added a seemingly small but long‑overdue convenience: you can now uninstall Store‑managed apps directly from the Store’s Library page, and Microsoft has paired this consumer‑facing tweak with a supported, policy‑based mechanism for device‑level removal of...

Hi all, im new here , thanks for letting me join your forum . i am running win 11 on my hp laptop , i was on win 10 but just upgraded it to 11 , my problem is i cant get updates and i cant use microsoft store , i had the same problem when i was using win 10 , i thought upgrading it would have...

The Xbox app error code 0x87e0000f has become a common roadblock for PC players trying to install or update games: downloads begin, stall after a few gigabytes and then fail with that terse numeric message. The problem has been reported across titles and services (including recent Game Pass...

Microsoft’s decades‑old Paint app — the little bitmap editor that has been bundled with Windows since 1985 — was publicly flagged as “deprecated” in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, sparking an outpouring of nostalgia, debate about legacy software stewardship, and a corporate clarification...

Microsoft has quietly added a checkbox to the Microsoft Store web experience that changes a routine part of Windows setup: you can now select multiple apps in your browser, click a single “Install selected” button, download a tiny launcher .exe, run it, and have the Microsoft Store app on the...

Microsoft’s web-based Store has quietly gained a practical new convenience: a multi-app install workflow that lets you pick a curated set of Windows apps in your browser, download a tiny launcher, and have the Microsoft Store app on your PC fetch and install all selected titles in one go — a...

Microsoft’s Store is quietly offering a new convenience: build a bundle of apps in your browser, download a single small launcher, run it on a PC and have the Microsoft Store app fetch and install the selected titles — up to a curated limit — in one go. Background / Overview The Microsoft...

Microsoft has quietly added a small but consequential convenience to the Microsoft Store: a web‑created, multi‑app install workflow that lets you pick a curated set of apps, download a single tiny launcher, and have the Store download and install everything for you in one go. Background Setting...

Microsoft’s Microsoft Store has quietly added a smartphone‑style convenience that could change how many people set up Windows PCs: a Multi‑app install feature that lets you assemble a curated bundle of apps in a browser, download a tiny launcher, and have the Store download and install all...