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Total App Count 2012-11-25
[Data per 2012-11-25] Current Total App Count in Windows 8 RTM Store = 13783 App Stats: App Class: Total Paid Apps: — Total Free Apps: — Total Desktop Apps: — Localization: Total English Apps: — Total...
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Flight Control (GAME) FOR IOS FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME!
This week, the App Store has turned five years old, and to celebrate, EA is giving away some of their popular paid games for iPhone, iPod, and iPad. Check out Flight Control, a popular game that made...
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The Sims™ Medieval (GAME) FOR IOS FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME!
This week, the App Store has turned five years old, and to celebrate, EA is giving away some of their popular paid games for iPhone, iPod, and iPad. Here’s a goodie! We have The Sims Medieval on the...
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VLC Update is now Live in the Windows Store
Our friend Thomas Nigro (@ThomasNigro) just tweeted that the new and overhauled VLC Player is now in the Windows Store. This is a major update to the player bringing performance and UI improvements. Go...
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SoundRecorder now saves to Documents folder in Windows 10 JTP
The Sound Recorder App was one of the updated apps for Windows 10 January Technical Preview. The Sound Recorder App in Windows 8 was excellent, but it has a nasty design fault; you can’t get to the...
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Why Big-Name Apps are disappearing from Windows Store
Yup, today another big name App is gone from the Windows Phone Store. VeVo joins the likes of Bank of America from removing their App from the Store. Windows Central broke the news a few moment ago....
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The New Windows 10 Store App now supports Desktop Apps Updates
Up till now we’ve seen Microsoft Windows Store provide and update the so-called Modern Apps. Although the Windows 8.1 Store provide ability to download and install Win32 or as Microsoft will have you...
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‘Machineers’ Arrives in the Windows Store to Makers’ Delight
Once in while we come across Apps in the Store that we feel is worthy of mention and want to share with you all. Since most of us here at McAkins Online have our roots in engineering and Builders...
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Intel AppUp Center App is in Windows Store
Intel AppUp Center has joined the Metro Craze. Intel created the AppUp Center as an answer to Apple’s AppStore then, to create a central place for PC users to find and install apps for the PC and...
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AppSwitch is here for Switchers to Windows 8
[Update 2012-10-11: The Developers of this App (AppSwitch) wants your help to make this app better by proposing App Matches on their site: http://www.appswitch.co.uk. So if you are a user of other...
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AppSwitch is back with a vengeance for Mobile OS Switchers
A long while back I ran treatise on an App that debuted in the Store that allows Switchers from other Mobile OSes to feel at home on Windows 8. Since then AppSwitch has grown to become the first app a...
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AppSoft brings you the Store Stats with AppCounter
As most of you know we were keeping track of Apps Count in the Metro Store here on McAkins Online, but then the number of Apps got to a point in which it is humanly impossible to track, at which point...
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AppSwitch–That Awesome App for Platform Switchers just got better.
Wow! An awesome update just dropped in the Store for AppSwitch. For those of you that doesn’t know, AppSwith is the app to make you switching to Microsoft platform from competing platforms as painless...
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Hurrah! Windows 8.1 Web Store has gone Live!–Updated!
Yesterday we broke the news about Microsoft now making the Windows Store Searchable from the web, today we are glad to announce that the Windows 8.1 themed Webstore has gone live. The former web access...
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Microsoft’s Project Siena App hits the Store!
Via @WinObs and @Surfacegeeks the news reached us a few minutes ago, that the much anticipated Project Siena is rearing its head in the Store. You ask what is this all about? It is Microsoft’s take on...
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Microsoft is rolling out Worldwide Alternative Billing for Apps
Microsoft is adding easier billing methods in Developing Countries where Creditcard usage is much less than the Western world. It has always been a problem for users in these countries like Mexico,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Once Again Accepting iOS Office Insiders for a Limited Time
Microsoft has reopened—for a very limited time—the option to beta test its Office applications on iOS devices through Apple’s TestFlight program. As of this writing, Microsoft is accepting testers for...
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