Microsoft’s app-store experiment started with a clear promise — a single, safe place to find and automatically update Windows software — but for more than a decade the reality was a sequence of missteps, confusing platform shifts, and fragmented developer incentives that left most PC users...
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Microsoft’s Xbox app on Windows 11 has quietly started to act less like a storefront front end and more like a full-fledged PC gaming hub, now testing a “My apps” tab that will surface, download, and launch third‑party apps and rival storefronts from within the Xbox UI itself.
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Xbox’s PC app is getting a major usability push for PC and handheld gamers with a new “My Apps” hub that collects browsers, utilities, and rival storefronts in a single launcher inside the Xbox PC app — a move designed to make the Xbox app the central home for everything you play on Windows. The...
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