Applications for Windows 10: Microsoft boasts quality and reveals how many there are to make the competition pale

The arrival of the iPhone and its operating system meant, or so we thought, the inauguration of a new market when it came to consuming applications If before with Symbian (it was the king in the mobile ecosystem) the applications for our mobiles were somewhat chaotic, with iPhone OS (later iOS) they began to have a single place to access them: the App Store arrived.

Since then iOS has been considered the most complete application store although the growth of the Google Play Store, its namesake on Android , is older.Opposite Windows 10 Mobile has never had anything to do, with few applications and it must be admitted, almost always of poorer quality. But what if we put Windows 10 in the equation now that the operating system wants to be unitary?.

That's what Microsoft has done through Michael Fortin, Corporate Vice President of Windows, on the company blog. A publication in which they boast of some numbers regarding the Applications available that make the competition pale

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Although many spoke of the death of the PC, it is clear that with these figures they speak of the good he alth of the operating system created by Bill Gates. The PC continues to be the most used platform when you want to offer greater productivity, an activity in which a mobile operating system often cannot offer the same possibilities Neither the almighty iPad Pro presented a few days ago, can squeeze the same thing that we can achieve on a PC or a Mac."

It is true that we will not have some very popular applications that we can find on _smartphones_, but this does not matter to the PC user . Just look at the figures. While iOS boasts 2.1 million applications on the App Store or Android 2.6 million on Google Play, Windows 10 offers up to 35 million applications.

Another song and a separate study deserves the Microsoft Application Store, an aspect in which the company must work significantly if you want to get closer to the level obtained in both Android and iOS, where the organization, the good one, makes it much easier for users to find the app they are looking for.

More control in Windows 10

This publication also affects the effort that will be carried out by the company to improve the quality of Windows 10 updates and that something like what happened with Windows 10 October 2018 Update does not happen again.

To this end, they advocate a change in the methodology of the tests carried out that makes it possible to guarantee that the versions that are being released are of higher quality from the start, even within the Insider Program. Also remember that along with the Insider Program, all builds are also tested by Microsoft and the OEM partners they work with.

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He appreciates that despite the fact that the quality of Windows 10 versions has been increasing, situations like the one experienced recently show that there is still much work remains to be done. In this sense, they plan to address the problem on the one hand by implementing the search engine system. With the same, users who manually check for the latest updates have priority to receive them first."

On the other hand will address the use of machine learning (_machine learning_) to ensure that device configurations that are likely to be found with issues do not receive a new build until those issues have been resolved.

Source | Windows Blog