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Top charts, categories and collections

As you can see in the above screenshot, everything now looks much more organized, and you can see there a “Surface picks” category, as well, which, obviously, is aimed at those who own a Surface tablet. But, this is just a way to get some more promotion for Microsoft’s tablet. Besides this, a quick shortcut has been included to your account settings, as well.

Collections on the Store Landing Page

We’ve been seeing more and more collections on the Featured area for quite a while now, especially when Red Stripe Deal have been appearing. And now we’re seeing a dedicated space for all kinds of collections like “getting started”, “better together” or “music lovers”. For example, when it was Mother’s day or the Valentine’s Day, and there were some curated apps on the Windows Store with that occasion.

SPONSORED The feature area has been here for quite a while now, and now it’s gotten an even better place for more eyeballs. Besides great apps, from time to time, we’ll get to see discounted apps, as well.

Universal apps

Microsoft has tested out this feature for a long while and, at a certain point, all of the apps carried the above icon, but now this has been fixed and only those apps which can indeed run on Windows Phone. So, now if you will buy an app from the Windows Store, you will be able to run it on your Windows Phone device, as well. Read Also: ‘Real Steel World Robot Boxing’ for Windows 8 Now Available

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