Microsoft: Windows bug blocks Microsoft 365 desktop app installs

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue preventing users from installing the Microsoft 365 desktop apps on Windows ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft now lets you enable the Windows App Installer again, here's how

Microsoft now allows enterprise admins to re-enable the MSIX ms-appinstaller protocol handler disabled after Emotet abused it to deliver malicious Windows App Installer packages. App Installer (also ...
The Spectrum

Windows 10 Desktop App vs. Microsoft Store App: Which is better?

If you are an avid Windows OS user, you are used to downloading the software installer from the web and run it to install the application on your system. From Windows 8.1, Microsoft introduced a new ...
Network World

Windows Desktop apps are now in the Windows Store

Developers can now distribute their Windows desktop apps to people shopping through Windows 10’s app store, with an update from Microsoft Wednesday. It’s a move powered by Project Centennial, which ...
CSOonline

Microsoft disables online Windows App Installer after attackers abuse it

Microsoft has disabled the App Installer functionality that allowed Windows 10 apps to be installed directly from a web page by clicking on a link that used the ms-appinstaller URI scheme. This ...