Best Windows apps this week
Six-hundred-forty-eight in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days.
Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux, which, in theory, should improve Linux on Windows in the long run.
As always, if I've missed an app or game that has been released this week that you believe is particularly good, let me know in the comments below or notify me via email.
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Discounts this week
The following list is a selection of the best deals. Make sure you check out the Store for all offers.
Some apps are discounted for more than one week. Only new apps and games are listed below. Check out the previous post in the series for past offers that may still be valid.
- Chemical Structure Viewer for $0.99
- Graph Math for $0.99
- Media Info Inspector for $3.34
- MicroTube for $3.34
- PodLord for $2.99
- XCockpit for $1.29
New or notably improved Windows apps
Edit is a new open source application by Microsoft that is available as a standalone application for now, but will be integrated into Windows eventually. The command line tool resembles editors of the DOS-era and Microsoft reveals that it created the tool because there was none für 64-bit versions of Windows.
Edit is pretty basic, but it does support a few extra features, such as support for multiple files or replace operations.
Everything is a search application for Windows that shames Windows Search when it comes to finding files fast on Windows machines. It supports file and content searching, and comes with several interesting features on top of all that.
The latest version improves the application's defenses against DLL hijacking, making it a must-install update.
Fixyfier is a lightweight tweaker for Windows that includes options to fix common issues experienced on Windows systems next to that. It provides access to Windows repair features, such as system file checker or DISM, among other things.