Following similar moves by Apple, Google, and more recently Amazon, among others, e-commerce platform Shopify announced today it’s also lowering its cut of developer revenue across its app marke
Microsoft today released the first preview build of Windows 11 to those in the Dev Channel of the company’s Windows Insider program. If you have joined the Insider program and meet MicrosoftR
With Microsoft’s BUILD 2018 conference right around the corner, the company just made good on a promise from last year’s conference; Apple iTunes is finally coming to the Windows Store. Th
You can't fault Microsoft for trying, but Groove Music, its Spotify competitor, never took off. Today, the company is admitting defeat. Microsoft today announced it will soon shutter both its Groove M
In an announcement met by hoots and hollers from the developers at Build, Microsoft introduced the 'Centennial' desktop app converter. With this, developers can convert their Win32 and .NET apps into
The Windows app store has a problem: it's full of garbage. Today, after a bit of good ol' Internet backlash, Microsoft is pledging to fix it.
Microsoft wants its Windows Store to be the main gateway for buying apps on its platform, but the store was always hard to navigate, and the quality of the apps in it is often dismal. Today, Microsoft
Buried in its MWC slides, Microsoft announced that it now serves 4 million application downloads daily from the Windows Store, the application marketplace for Windows 8.x.
Four million downloads pe
In November, paid downloads of games on the Windows Store grew 34.12 percent, while free game downloads grew a more modest 13.41 percent. In the month, the Windows Store’s assortment of games s
According to information Microsoft provides to developers, the Windows Store marketplace for applications on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 racked up roughly 1.7 million daily downloads, both free and paid
For the Windows 8.1 Preview, Microsoft took a close look at its Windows Store and decided to give it a facelift and make a few changes to the way the operating system handles Store apps. Windows Store
It's no secret that Microsoft is doing its best to get more developers to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.windowsstore.com/">write apps</a> for its Windows 8 platform. Today, the company is <a tar
The Windows 8 Store could sure use a few good apps before the official Windows 8 launch later this month, but at least we're seeing a slow trickle of interesting apps from known brands now. One of the
As <a target="_blank" href="http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/08/valve-launching-creativity-software-on-steam-this-september/">anticipated</a> in August, digital game seller Steam is now offering Windows
Microsoft just announced that the <a target="_blank" href="http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/windows-8/apps">Windows Store</a>, the app store for the company's upcoming Windows 8 release, is now open
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/17/windows-8-youll-absolutely-hate-it-at-first-but-give-it-a-chance-anyway/">Love it or hate it</a>, but Windows 8 will <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/