Any operating system worth its salt, both desktop and mobile, must have an official, quality application store. This is something that the Redmond people know perfectly well, hence the effort they put into the growth and acceptance of the Microsoft Store of Windows 10 .
Not surprisingly, this is the official store for the world’s most used desktop operating system, and by far. Hence, the Microsoft Store should be an important element, although for the moment less than what the firm would like. Here we find a good number of UWP applications and games that we can install directly on our PC. Although many do not like it too much, the truth is that we can find some very interesting proposals in some cases.
But of course, it cannot be said that this store has the best design or content distribution, so looking for what interests us is not always easy. It is for all this that in these same lines we are going to talk about some simple tricks that you can carry out in order to improve this. Specifically, we refer to the possibility of finding interesting programs and games in the Windows 10 store.
See the Microsoft Store home page
The first thing we should do in this regard is take a look by scrolling to the main page of the Microsoft Store. We say this because the firm usually places here some of the most demanded and downloaded titles from the store itself. In this way we can find programs that we did not even know have a UWP version for Windows 10, such as VLC, Netflix , or Amazon Prime Video .
And it is that the integration of these UWPs with the operating system itself makes its operation and fluidity greater than what we are used to.
Filter by categories
It is true that there are not many, but in the upper part of the initial window of the operating system store. Specifically we find Games, Entertainment and productivity. The first of them is quite clear, the other two perhaps not so much. Well, to say that Entertainment focuses more on the reproduction of multimedia content , movies and series that we can rent, music programs, etc.
At the same time, in the Productivity section, we find all kinds of applications focused more on professional or office use.
Take a look at program and game offerings
Along with the three mentioned categories, in the main window of the Microsoft Store we also find a section called Offers . Surely the section we refer to here will be more than interesting, since in this official store there are offers at all times. In fact, Microsoft itself changes them from time to time so that Windows users can take advantage of them.
Let’s not forget that in this section of Offers that we are talking about, we can find both games and programs of all kinds.
Use the search engine integrated in the Microsoft Store
And how could it be otherwise, the Microsoft Store has its own search engine for programs and games integrated. In this way, in the case that we look for a certain title in its UWP version because we do not know if it has been launched, this is the most effective solution. This is found in the upper right part of the main interface of the Windows 10 store.
