Martin Brinkmann

Four-hundred-ninety-one 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.

Windows 11 reached broad deployment status this week; this means that Microsoft believes that the operating system is ready now for organizations and all devices that meet the operating system's requirements.

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Four-hundred-ninety 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.

The KB5013943 update for Windows 11 is causing application start issues on some devices. Affected users may want to check Sofia's article, as it contains a workaround.

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Four-hundred-eighty-nine 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.

The new Microsoft Store web interface lists update dates once again for listed applications.

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Four-hundred-eighty-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.

Adoption of Windows 11 appears to have slowed down in the past two months according to recent usage statistics by third-parties.

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Four-hundred-eighty-seven 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.

The Microsoft Store may soon be the home for third-party widgets that users may download and install. The Widgets feature of Windows 11 displays first-party content only at the moment.

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Four-hundred-eighty-six 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.

Windows 10 version 20H2 support is running out next month. Devices may be upgraded to a newer version of Windows 10, e.g., Windows 10 version 21H2, or to Windows 11, provided that they meet the system requirements.

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Four-hundred-eighty-five 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 fixed an issue in its Edge browser that blocked upgrades to Windows 11 from Windows 10 devices. The upcoming Windows 11 feature update, version 22H2, will get several new features, including tabs in File Explorer.

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Four-hundred-eighty-four 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 launched a new driver blocking security feature to boost Windows security.

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Four-hundred-eighty-three 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 started to roll out a new search feature on Windows 10 and 11 devices that it calls Search Highlight.

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Four-hundred-eighty-two 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 removed the last Windows 11 upgrade block this week; all compatible Windows 10 devices should have received an upgrade offer by now.

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Four-hundred-eighty-one 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 added two new apps to the latest Windows 11 Insider build. Clipchamp is a Microsoft-owned video editor that has been available in the Microsoft Store since 2020. Microsoft Family, the second new app, centralizes management of parental control and family management features, but it is only included in Home editions by default.

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Four-hundred-eighty 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.

Windows 11 is already on 19.3 percent of all PCs according to the latest usage stats released by AdDuplex. The company monitors about 5,000 Microsoft Store applications through its services and uses telemetry to publish monthly usage statistics.

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Four-hundred-seventy-nine 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.

Windows 11 users who have installed the operating system on devices that do not meet all the system requirements may soon see a notification that the system does not meet the requirements. Good news is, you may remove it.

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Four-hundred-seventy-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 released KB5010414, a preview update for Windows 11, this week that introduces new features to the operating system. Features include a new weather icon on the taskbar, clock and date on all taskbars on multi-monitor setups, and Microsoft Teams improvements.

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Four-hundred-seventy-seven 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.

Windows 11 users who run the operating system on devices that don't meet the minimum system requirements will soon be reminded by Microsoft of the fact.

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