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Well, good news: VLC is in Microsoft Store [0]. Go there and get it straight from the horse's mouth! And the best thing is, it has been around for a decade alre

• oarsinsync 3y ago
  Well, bad news: VLC team is pretty explicit about their negative views about app stores in general, as well as the microsoft store specifically. VLC: App Stores Were a Mistake (twitter.com/videolan) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39798565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39798565 More here: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/04/19/vlc-vs-the-app-stores/ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/04/19/vlc-vs-the-app-stores/ > Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users… > If you do wonder why we don’t update VLC on the Windows Store or why VLC/iOS can’t connect properly to OneDrive shares, it’s because Microsoft Kafkaïesque bureaucracy refuses to help us. So maybe you don’t want to use centralised app stores with commercial control, and instead want to download software directly from the authors.