Microsoft prepares changes to the Microsoft Store: new design and more facilities for developers

Changes are being prepared in the new application designed to access the Microsoft application store. The company wants to extend Sun Valley's prevailing design to achieve a store that is more visually appealing but, incidentally, more careful with developers.

Sun Valley seems to be called to spray everything that surrounds the Windows ecosystem with its essence and the application store was not going to be less with an update that is expected to be applied at the end of the year and that it will provide aesthetic improvements but also functional improvements

A long-awaited change

And it is that the new application to access the Microsoft Store will launch new designs in which changes appear in WinUI, more fluid animations and new icons. It will remain a UWP-style app and will be updated monthly with new features.

Among the goals that Microsoft pursues are to improve the download and installation experience, especially when it comes to using large applications and games. A store that will also spoil developers more thanks to three major changes:

• Developers submit unpackaged Win32 applications to the Store in either .EXE or .MSI format.
• In this sense, it will even allow interested developers to host the app and push updates through their own CDN.
• Not least, Microsoft will allow developers to use their own in-app revenue streams so they can avoid the Microsoft platform, although and as they count in Windows Central, Microsoft will not accept a trimming of applications by developers to take advantage of in-app commerce.

These are important changes, since until now developers who upload an app must port their Win32 application as a MSIX. In addition, they are forced to use Microsoft's trading platform and update policy, one of the workhorses in recent months.

The ultimate goal is to make it easier for developers to upload and host apps on the Microsoft Store and incidentally make the application store a more open space where it is easier to find applications.

The new store should be a reality in the last part of the year, perhaps coinciding with the arrival of the update to Windows 10 Sun Valley and that before, a version in preview appears to polish possible errors.

Via | Windows Central