I’ve read the article and still don’t know why.

Tempest1981 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> It's simply easier for the Microsoft development team to maintain one version of the suite and they've chosen the most convenient option — Click-to-Run (vs Microsoft Store)

Must be significantly harder to develop MS Store apps. Due to sandboxing limitations?

I suffered through this Store pain recently, after buying a $$ game from Microsoft: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/cant-install-forza-horizon-on... (11 things to try!)

Microsoft also had a separate EXE to download to try to repair things, along with wsreset, wscollect, etc. Far too complicated.

	▲	promiseofbeans 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Microsoft publish two different editions of the Windows Minecraft launcher with different sets of features. One is the MS Store version and one is the regular version
	▲	amelius 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> It's simply easier for the Microsoft development team to maintain one version of the suite Microsoft, the king of backward compatibility? Tell me it is not true.

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pjerem 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because it’s easier for the few devs of one of the richest company of the world to manage only one delivery method.

	▲	generic92034 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		But now with AI help they should be twice as productive and have all time in the world for extra work, right? /s

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hacker_homie 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Probably because there's internal conflicts between the store team and the applications group, that neither of them want to deal with anymore, this might have been for the windows S support (remember store only windows).

They have their own distribution system, so they don't need this anymore.

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promiseofbeans 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Content marketing and modern “journalism” at it’s finest

	▲	kotaKat 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		BGR used to be a decent blog when they were covering Blackberries... but once your main jam dies off all you can do is turn to longform slop a decade later.