The store will support all kinds of apps, including those programming as PWA, UWP or Win32 formats. If you use your own commerce engine, you will not have to pay any revenue share to Microsoft at all. However, if you use Microsoft’s engine, you’ll have an 85/15 split for regular apps or 88/12 for games. On Windows 11, hovering over the minimize / maximize button gives you a choice of different snap layouts, based on your screen size. I have been on the Windows 11 Beta releases for over a month and I would like to emphasize some missing UI...Read More

You’ll be given the option of choosing to keep your personal files or completely wiping out everything. In either option, the installed software and settings will be removed. This will effectively be a clean installation of Windows 10. The reset process may take about 30 minutes depending on the speed of your computer. While modern PCs are obviously almost always connected to the internet, there is no objective reason why setting up a PC should require an internet connection. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. I will explain what each of these means and when to...Read More

You can use the Print Screen key to open Snip & Sketch to take screenshots on Windows 10, and here’s how to configure the option. Unfortunately, I can’t validate this guess since the problem doesn’t occur on my machine, anymore. Perhaps you could look into changing the registry value for ScreenshotIndex in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer. Try setting it higher than the highest numbered screenshot in your Pictures\Screenshots folder. I had this same issue on my Surface Pro 2, and brought it to a Microsoft Store to have them look at. When completed, you’ll load back into the same Windows environment where you...Read More