Home windows 11 customers are getting a rejig for the Microsoft Retailer to make it simpler to seek out apps or video games that is perhaps related or attention-grabbing.

As posted on X (previously Twitter) by Rudy Huyn, Principal Architect for the Microsoft Retailer, there’s a vacation replace inbound for testers.

Thrilling Vacation Replace: The #MicrosoftStore now prioritizes discovering new functions and video games by deprioritizing these you already put in in your system. This characteristic in beta model is at the moment accessible to #Home windows #Insiders. pic.twitter.com/WR8Kzqr3G1December 18, 2023

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Which means that the shop will now not present apps and video games put in in your system – or at the very least, it received’t present almost as many – and can as an alternative favor new apps and video games that you simply may get pleasure from based mostly in your previous obtain historical past.

Hopefully, this adjustment received’t take lengthy to reach with a broader rollout to Home windows 11 customers who aren’t testers.

Word that the Microsoft Retailer did already present apps you may need to seize, it’s simply that the stability has shifted extra in direction of displaying these, relatively than put in software program.

Evaluation: One other (small) step ahead

That is one other helpful transfer for the Microsoft Retailer, because it’s not a lot assist to point out the consumer what they’ve already bought put in on their PC. Whereas we’re not eager on Microsoft’s ‘ideas’ all through Home windows, within the case of an app retailer, suggestions could be extra helpful to look at than a listing of what you already learn about.

That stated, this alteration alone is clearly not going to do a lot by way of persuading people to make use of the Microsoft Retailer in the event that they don’t hassle with it. The transfer is hardly a significant promoting level in itself.

Nonetheless, Microsoft has been doing a variety of work on the shop of late, and people enhancements are constructing momentum. The shop now hundreds up means sooner, and we’ve seen meatier chunks of labor, too. Most notably the introduction of AI (it’s getting all over the place) within the type of a devoted hub for AI software program – and likewise AI-generated overview summaries.

The latter may very well be fairly useful certainly, as wading via a bunch of opinions isn’t a lot enjoyable, so it’s a helpful activity the place AI can do the proverbial grunt work.

By way of Home windows Central

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