Windows 10 For Seniors For Dummies, 4th Edition

Chapter 9

Exploring the Microsoft Store

IN THIS CHAPTER

Shopping at the Microsoft Store

Installing an app from the Microsoft Store

Seeing which apps and games you have

Making sure your billing information is up to date

You can do many things with Windows 10, such as send email, browse the web, play games, and look at photos and videos. You can read the news and chat with family and friends. All these functions and more involve computer programs. Back in the day, such programs were called applications. Now, we call them apps.

Windows 10 comes with a few apps installed, such as the Weather and Maps apps. (See Chapter 2 for information on using these two apps and apps in general.) To obtain other apps — free or otherwise — you use the Microsoft Store.

To install an app from the Microsoft Store, you need a Microsoft Account. See Chapter 4 for information on setting up a Microsoft Account.

Microsoft tests and approves all apps in the Microsoft Store. For quality and security purposes, you can install Windows 10 apps only from the Microsoft Store.

In this chapter, you peruse the apps ...