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You can sideload store apps in Windows 8 relatively easy. What you need is the .appx file for the app and powershell. Using the PS prompt you can sign up for a
by lini 14y ago
You can sideload store apps in Windows 8 relatively easy. What you need is the .appx file for the app and powershell. Using the PS prompt you can sign up for a developer license (free, renewed each month) and deploy the .appx file containing the app. No store updates this way, but the app appears on the start menu and works normally.
Microsoft even provides a PowerShell script that automates this installation each time you build a Windows Store app in Visual Studio along with the .appx file.
- dschep 14y agoThat's "easy" for development. Suggesting that it's something all end users of Steam should do is absurd.
- jlgreco 14y agoIs Microsoft competing with Linux for unusability now? This sounds more involved than customizing GNOME, which is a feat...
- icelancer 14y ago>You can sideload store apps in Windows 8 relatively easy. OK. >What you need is the .appx file for the app and powershell what
- gergles 14y ago> you can sign up for a developer license (free, renewed each month) Great, my OS is now timebombed to permit me to only install what I want on it at Microsoft's pleasure. How on earth is this "easy" compared to "compile it and you can run it forever" like Windows has been since Windows existed? (Also: what happens when Windows 8 support is "sunset"? You just can't use that computer anymore? Jeez.)
- RyJones 14y agoWe had a team prepare for a demo on WinRT tablets in the US. They went overseas to do the demo - license expired in route. No connectivity; couldn't VPN in due to no WinRT VPN client, had to drop that part of the demo. Huge pain, no gain.