Chapter 10
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 11, 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 11 comes with a few apps installed, such as the Weather and Maps apps. (See Chapter 2 for information on using apps.) 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 11 apps only from the Microsoft Store.
In this chapter, you peruse the apps and games in the Microsoft Store, ...
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