With the launch of Windows 11 last year, the company redesigned the Microsoft Store from the ground up. It was one of the best new features in Windows 11 and reworked to offer support for UWP, PWA, Win32 and even Android apps. Today, at the ongoing Build 2022 developer conference, Microsoft announced a slew of new features for the Microsoft Store.
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When the new Microsoft Store was first rolled out with Windows 11, only select developers were allowed to make their Win32 apps available to users. That is no longer the case. Any developer with a Win32 app can now submit their apps to the store and serve them to users with ease. Microsoft accepts unpacked Win32 apps based on .NET, C++, Electron, Flutter, Qt, Rust and more technologies.
While it's great that we'll have access to more apps through the Store, the best new addition comes in the form of the "Restore Apps" feature. As the name suggests, it will enable you to restore apps installed through the Microsoft Store when you switch to a new device. "This will also help developers retain their customers without having to remind customers to download their app again," says Microsoft.
The advantage of this feature is that you don't have to remember or write down the name of apps that you used regularly on your previous machine. Instead, you can now click a button to set up your new Windows 11 device in a snap.
