In June of this year, Microsoft unveiled the new Microsoft Store on the Windows system, through a brand-new design to meet the needs of users for a variety of application experiences. Microsoft also released the Microsoft Store on Windows to other stores that use different types of frameworks, installation packages, and platforms. The new Microsoft Store will be launched to the public together with Windows 11 on October 5th. In the next few months, users of Windows 10 will also be able to use it.
Microsoft
announced that it will further open the Microsoft Store and invite third-party application stores to log in to the Microsoft Store. Just like any other application, there will be a detailed information introduction page, which can be found by searching or browsing and can be easily downloaded and installed. In the future, users can see Epic Games, Amazon, and other third-party app stores in the Microsoft Store. Microsoft believes that this approach will give third-party developers more choices. In addition, Microsoft also emphasized that when these third-party app stores manage their own in-app payment systems, Microsoft will not extract a share from them.
Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, welcomed this and believed that Microsoft once again led the industry with Windows, and now it is an open platform with an open application store. Earlier, Epic Games had divided issues with Apple and fell out with Apple, believing that the 30% share prescribed by Apple is too high, and intends to replace it with its own in-app payment system, but Apple prohibits developers from doing so.
Recently, a series of active policies of the Microsoft Store has received very good results. Applications such as Discord, Zoom, KakaoTalk, Luminar AI, Music Maker, VLC, TeamViewer, and LibreOffice have appeared in the Microsoft Store, and even Reddit, Wikipedia, TikTok, Lyft, Quizlet, Tumblr, etc.
