Microsoft Store will soon let you install apps directly from top featured sections

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Microsoft has announced a change for its app marketplace. You will soon be able to install apps directly from Microsoft Store's top featured sections.

Currently, you have to open the Microsoft Store, click on app's banner on the featured pages, and then click on the install button. The announcement from Microsoft says that the option to install apps directly from the top featured sections will allow users to download their favorite products in fewer steps. It shaves a step, you open the Store app, and just hit install directly on an app's banner if it is on the front page (or a genre's main page). What if someone doesn't own a paid app or game? Does it function as a one-click buy button, probably not?

If an app was someone's favorite, they would already have it installed on their PC, right? Or a user would just get it from the library page, or use the Store's search feature. Nobody is going to go look for a banner to click on. What Microsoft is trying so hard to explain is that it wants to promote apps with an install button. It's not surprising, a month ago the company announced a personalized home page for the Microsoft Store, along with Copilot integration. It might help with app discovery, which could be important for developers or advertisers, but users may not like these changes.

The new Microsoft Store experience is available for Windows 11 Insiders who have opted in to the Canary and Dev Channels running version 22406.xxxx.x of the Microsoft Store and higher. On a side note, Windows PowerShell 2.0 is being deprecated, and will be removed in an upcoming update.

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