Microsoft is finally giving people a reason to use the Windows 10 app store

#Windows10 #AppStore – Microsoft is finally giving people a reason to use the Windows 10 app store : Microsoft has spent the last year making a major push towards the Windows Store, which sells apps that work across all Windows 10 devices – whether they are PCs, tablets, smartphones, or holographic headsets.

It's a fine idea. The problem is that, largely thanks to Microsoft's collapse in the smartphone market, developers aren't exactly rushing to fill the Windows Store with apps.

While bigshots like Facebook and Uber have brought their wares to the Windows Store, you're still not going to find popular apps like Snapchat and Pokémon Go.

This week, Microsoft announced that the Windows Store situation is going to get much better, very soon, thanks to the long-awaited arrival of Desktop App Converter, a tool that lets companies take their existing Windows software and convert it to a Windows 10 app.

Thanks to this tool, apps like Evernote and the popular doubleTwist media player are finally arriving in full force on Windows 10, according to a Microsoft blog entry.

Judging from this first wave of desktop apps coming to Windows 10, these apps aren't exactly the best examples of Microsoft's vision for a unified Windows 10 app store across devices, since they'll only work on PCs and PC-like tablets (including the Microsoft Surface).

The new Evernote app for Windows 10.

But there are a few benefits to getting these apps from the Windows Store, instead of the old-fashioned way of getting them straight from a developer's website.

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