Chapter 5: Taking Control of the Windows Store
In This Chapter
Getting the lowdown on Windows Store apps
Exploring the Windows Store
Updating your Store accounts and preferences
If you’re familiar with buying programs in the Apple App Store, you already know about 90 percent of what you’ll find in the Windows Store.
Microsoft’s Windows Store launched simultaneously with the release of Windows 8. The Windows Store is a big, extensible, very usable source of new programs for the tiled side of your Windows computer. There are even apps that run on the desktop side, too.
Apps make or break any computer these days, and Microsoft knows it. That’s why you find an enormous breadth of apps in the Windows Store — it’s good for you, and good for Microsoft, over and above the 30-percent commission Microsoft makes on every sale.
The only way you can get apps for the tiled side of Windows is to download and install the app from Windows Store. While large companies can put tiled apps on their Windows devices (using a technique known as sideloading), normal people like you and me have to go through the Windows Store: the alpha and omega of tiled, new style Windows 8 apps.
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