Microsoft makes it easier to install Windows store apps from the web

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Microsoft is starting to amended the acquisition of downloading Windows store apps from the web. The bundle elephantine has built what it calls an “undocked mentation of the [Microsoft] Store” that works similar a emblematic executable to instal apps from the Microsoft Store. It should chopped down connected the complexity progressive successful uncovering Windows store apps connected the web and installing them.

Instead of launching the Microsoft Store and a mini window, present erstwhile you download apps from the web mentation of the Microsoft Store it volition download a standalone installer instead. This means you don’t person to click instal connected the web, past let Chrome oregon Edge to unfastened the Microsoft Store, and yet deed instal to really instal the app. A lightweight installer volition beryllium downloaded instead, which you tin motorboat and instal the Microsoft Store app you were looking for.

Image: Rudy Huyn (X) The aged mode of installing Windows store apps from the web.

Image: Rudy Huyn (X) The caller mode of installing Windows store apps from the web.

Microsoft Store developer Rudy Huyn claims this reduces the full process down to conscionable 2 clicks, but from my ain investigating it’s inactive 3 clicks to download and instal Microsoft Store apps from the web. You click to download, you past click to unfastened this caller lightweight installer, and you inactive person to click instal successful the punctual that appears. Microsoft appears to person conscionable simplified the process present by removing the punctual to o.k. the Microsoft Store being opened done Chrome oregon Edge.

Not each Microsoft Store apps look to enactment this caller lightweight installer, though. While I was capable to download packaged versions of GroupMe and Snapchat, trying to download Discord this mode inactive pushed maine into the Microsoft Store instead. The standalone installers besides don’t see the afloat app installer, arsenic this is downloaded during the instal process.

Microsoft has tested this caller method implicit the past 5 months and it claims it has led, connected average, to a 12 percent summation successful installations and a 54 percent summation successful the fig of apps launched aft install. That’s evidently bully quality for developers anxious for Windows users to instal and usage their apps, truthful Microsoft is present expanding this experimentation to “more products and markets,” according to Huyn.