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Rumor: Microsoft planning new Windows Shop that doesn't suck

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According to Windows Fundamental, time-tested sources read that Microsoft is functioning on a new Windows 10 app storefront to substitute the current, much-unlikeable Windows Store. The aim, they say, is to "introduce a red-brick and disposable interface, as well as institute changes to the policies that govern what sort of apps toilet equal submitted to the store by developers".

Unrivaled of the of import changes would atomic number 4 to permit developers submit programs as unpackaged Win32 apps, rather than having to convert them to the MSIX package format—which itself was introduced to fix the issues hoi polloi had when everything on the Windows Storage had to be a UWP app.

With chance this would mean users could approach and alter the folders games put in to more well, making Game Pass for Microcomputer simpler to manage (currently whether it installs games to your SSD or defaults vertebral column to C drive no matter what is a crapshoot), and making mods easier to install (currently that relies happening developers enabling IT as an option, and even then sealed mods preceptor't work).

The other big change is that developers would be able to host software on their own content delivery networks, preferably than having to use Microsoft's in-app commerce platform. Windows Central's sources even tell it that, "Microsoft will non take a cut from app developers who behave leverage their ain in-app commerce channel". It's newsworthy this rumor appears as Apple is about to face up the US Senate terminated antitrust concerns regarding the iOS App Store and is going to trial with Epic over the issue. Epic is demanding developers be allowed to handle their own defrayal processing—if this real is Microsoft's be after, we could even hear Poem bring it up in this visitation.

The new Windows Store is expected to debut at the same time atomic number 3 a forthcoming refresh of the Windows 10 UI that is supposedly codenamed "Sun Valley", and is expected in Fall 2021.

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