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#Teamviewer app for universal windows platform install#

We tried to install several add-ons for video services, including BBC iPlayer, but only the Vimeo add-on worked reliably.

There is a Windows Store version of the increasingly omnipotent Plex, but its user interface is hateful and the installation of the various add-ons required to get some of the more “interesting” content is hit and miss. Still, the convenience of offline downloads is lost without dedicated apps. Amazon Prime and the BBC iPlayer are notable absentees, although both will remain viewable via the web browser. The Store includes apps for some of the major video-on-demand apps, such as Netflix and Sky’s Now TV.

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You won’t go short of things to watch and listen to with Windows 10 S. Titles such as the Monkey Island-like Thimbleweed Park and its quirky 8-bit graphics will run on pretty much any Windows 10 system. Space sandbox game Astroneer is slightly more demanding, but keenly priced at £15.74.Ĭertainly, no other app store has the breadth and diversity of games that the Windows Store boasts. The game’s minimum and recommended specs are listed on each app’s page, and Windows automatically puts a tick or cross alongside each spec to show whether your PC is up to the job.Įven if you don’t have a top-of-the-range graphics card, the Windows Store is also beginning to house a selection of titles from indie developers the kind you’d more often associate with Steam, which aren’t quite as demanding. The difficulty here is system requirements: unlike most games you’ll pick up on mobile stores, the PC games each have different minimum specs, but here the Windows Store does something quite clever. Given you can buy it for £50 online, it highlights a key disadvantage of Windows 10 S: you can’t shop around. You’re stuck with whatever price the developer sets, and given that Microsoft takes a 30% cut on apps sold through the Store, there’s no real incentive for software developers to sell through that channel when they can take 100% of the profit if they sell directly to consumers. There’s no Adobe Creative Suite, none of the well-known video editing suites and no Audacity for audio editors.Īt a consumer level, Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 is in the Store, but its priced rather handsomely at £77.29 at the time of writing. CreativeĬreative professionals might struggle to rub along with what’s available in the Windows Store. It seems odd Microsoft is almost encouraging this “backdoor”. Chrome and Firefox both run on Linux, as does Audacity and many other useful apps that aren’t in the Windows Store. Even if you’re not a coder, it might even help you get around some of the Store’s conspicuous absentees.

If you’re a developer, the shock news that three of the most popular Linux distros Ubuntu, SUSE and Fedora – are on their way to the Windows Store will come as a very welcome surprise. That noise you can hear is a nation tutting. So keen, in fact, that Windows 10 S won’t allow you to change the default browser, nor can you shift Bing as the default search provider. Microsoft is naturally very keen that you use its own Edge browser.

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They’re not allowed to sneakily add extra programs or background services during installation, for example, and all updates must be provided through the Store, meaning that apps should automatically upgrade to the latest version (if you want them to). We’ve been ploughing through the Windows Store to find out what’s on offer in certain key categories. The Win32 apps have constraints placed on them that don’t apply to regular Windows 10 apps with their own installer, but these largely work in favour of the consumer.

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Instead, the Store is now comprised of both Universal Windows Programs (mobile-style apps that can run across the full spectrum of Windows devices) and old-school Win32 applications ported to the Store using Desktop Bridge (such as Photoshop Elements).