The Microsoft Store opens to third-party applications and Amazon and Epic are the first to take advantage of it

When Windows 11 was introduced, one of the focuses was on the Microsoft app store. The American company wants to promote Microsoft Stores. In the Windows 11 builds we see how they work to improve their functions and now they also take a new step to open the application store to third parties

A new Microsoft Store is here, with a complete redesign and more features, including the ability to host third-party stores. A process that Microsoft has announced and that has been inaugurated with the integration of Amazon and Epic as members of the Microsoft Store.

Epic and Amazon first to arrive

An important step that benefits the user above all, who now has access to a more complete Microsoft Store, since the integration of third-party stores means that their applications will also be available in the Microsoft Store. This is the case of Amazon and Epic, the first two to take advantage of this advantage

Buying any of the applications from these two stores from the Microsoft Store will not differ from what it means to buy an application that was already present in the application store of the Redmond company. The process will be the same.

In the case of Amazon, it was expected, as it may be the previous step for the arrival of Android-based applications in the Microsoft Store. In fact Amazon will be in charge of providing Android applications to Windows 11.

For its part, Epic, recent news due to its conflict with Apple, has found in the Microsoft Store what the apple company has denied the bite: una app store open to third parties with its payment gateway.

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The opening of the Microsoft Store to other companies means that each company that wants to integrate will be able to maintain their own payment methods and unlike other platforms, Microsoft is not going to take no commission from apps sold Only in the case of games, Microsoft will take a commission that will be 12%, less than what Apple takes, for example. "

Microsoft has a tough job with the app store. Enforce the Microsoft Store so that users choose to download from there instead of any of the sites from which it is possible to download applications.Integrating other stores is a big step and now they have to put order in the Microsoft Store above all to facilitate searches and have a really attractive store.

Via | Engadget