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That's a valid point and I do not recall doing the same with uTorrent. However I eventually grew to not trust the older version I was running after a number of

That's a valid point and I do not recall doing the same with uTorrent. However I eventually grew to not trust the older version I was running after a number of security notices about the App. I eventually just gave up on it entirely because I couldn't trust the old one and didn't want the new one. I'm not advocating that Apps be available exclusively in the store, just that I enjoy the convenience of the store for maintaining updates and would like them to be there. To your point I would also like to be able to install them outside of the store. I think the reality is that doing autoupdates the way Firefox and Chrome handle them is hard. Most small projects can't be bothered to even implement it. That's where the store shines because it can implement and manage the autoupdate functionality independently.

russdpale 8y ago
I can honestly see the benefits of having the windows store do that for me. Personally, as a developer, I'd rather roll that on my own... but only because I'm so soured on these walled "stores" the giants have set up. I loathe the playstore and fear that, without heavy curation, the windows store is going to turn into the same exact thing. In response, I went with the LTSB version of windows 10, which is absolutely great. I went to use ganache the other month and they didn't have an .exe or .msi (they do now fortunately) but it took a few to figure out how to sideload the .appx and I'm not sure I ever got it installed correctly so I used the CLI until they released a proper installer.