Ever given switching to Windows 8, we have unequivocally taken to some Modern apps and use them utterly regularly. This brings me in revisit hit with Windows Store though until Microsoft showed off a revamped version, we never gave a Store many thought. Windows Store has always been rather simplistic, and never had too many features. Windows 8.1 brings a lot of facilities to a Store app, though that has come during a cost of losing some of a simplicity. The updated chronicle of a Store isn’t accurately cluttered, though it will take some removing used to. The blueprint has changed, and we are now shown a list of featured apps curated by Microsoft, in serve to being means to crop by a app collection by fast jumping between categories. The pages dedicated to any app are also some-more detailed, with user reviews, ratings and associated apps featuring some-more prominently.
There can be no denying a fact that a interface of Store in Windows 8 was a whole lot neater than a new version, though there are copiousness of new facilities in a refurbish to make adult for that. The ‘Spotlight’ territory is gone, transposed by a scrollable list of featured apps. Even if we don’t crop by a apps manually, a territory keeps cycling by them automatically.
The horizontally organised categories have been abolished in a revamped Windows Store, and we can now switch between categories by right-clicking anywhere in a Store. This list has a lot some-more categories than were formerly upheld in a Store. A distinguished new serve to a brew is ‘Picks for you’, that is flattering many like a Genius underline employed by a App Store in iOS; it takes into comment your preferences to benefaction we with a apps we are expected to find many useful. Account government options also uncover adult during a tip of this list.
The biggest change in a Windows 8.1 Store shows adult when we revisit an app’s download page. Rather than being divided into 3 apart tabs, all is displayed on one screen. This competence make we corkscrew a prolonged approach to get all a information per an app, though we have to acknowledge that a revamped page offers some-more information than a aged one had. After app sum and a designation button, a app’s screenshots are shown.
Scroll further, and there are ratings and reviews. The new ratings shade is some-more extensive than it was in Windows 8. Other than a altogether normal rating, a sum series of perceived ratings and other stats are also shown. Last though not a least, we can finally see associated apps and other apps from a same developer on any app’s page in a new Windows Store.
If morality and preference are your preferences, a revamped Windows Store substantially isn’t going to make we too happy, though it is tough to impugn a truly useful facilities like Picks for we and categories.
Hands-On With The New & Improved Windows Store App In Windows 8.1
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