Once I added a fifth app, clicking "select all" was capable of de-selecting all five, which is at least nonsensical in a more consistent way. After I selected all of them manually, clicking "select all" actually deselected three of them, leaving the selection checkmark on the first one untouched. When none of them were selected, clicking "select all" selected only the first one. I was trying to figure out what to do with this button when I had four Metro apps installed, all of which showed up on my apps screen. The "select all" button on the "Your apps" screen is a case in point. The Windows Store is not without bugs and design flaws, which will hopefully be fixed before final release. You could already pause downloads in the Consumer Preview. The Release Preview also adds the ability to cancel a download while it is occurring. This feature was added because users of the Consumer Preview "struggled to find the list of apps they had acquired, for the purposes of installing those apps to additional PCs," Microsoft said in a new blog post on the Windows Store updates.
The Windows Store's front page is pretty spartan, showing a few featured apps and categories like "new releases" and "top free" apps: While using the Windows Store is easy enough, its current state doesn't match the usability and discoverability of Apple's App Stores.
#Mac spotlight for windows 8 windows 8
There aren't many apps in it just yet, and there's little sense in harping on that point as the number and quality will surely increase dramatically when Windows 8 hits final form.īut the interface in which users discover and search for apps is far enough along to compare to the store's big rivals: the Mac App Store and the iOS App Store. We can already access the store in both the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 that came out several months ago and the more advanced Release Preview that came out yesterday. Basically, it's important for Microsoft to get it right.
#Mac spotlight for windows 8 install
As the Metro interface replaces much of what we're used to in Windows, the Windows Store will be the place where users go to install Metro apps both on the desktop and tablet. When Windows 8 ships this fall, it will represent both the next iteration of Windows on the desktop and Microsoft's answer to Apple's dominance of the tablet market.
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