Here are great Store feedback suggestions Microsoft is still sitting on

I hate this thing, you might know that I hate the Microsoft Store. I've written about it multiple times. As we head towards a world where Microsoft is pushing its app shop more and more, across Shop-locked versions of its operating system, and via major Store exclusives like the upcoming Sea of Thieves – the fact that it's still a generally bad user feel is something that soon won't just exasperate random bloggers, techies, and gamers, but also those pesky "normies" as well.

If the Store is truly here to stay, Microsoft, you need to make it skillful. Let's take a look at some of the feedback in the Windows Feedback Hub that is currently waiting to be actioned.

1. Add an option to uninstall currently installed apps

Currently, the number i well-nigh-upvoted piece of Microsoft Store feedback is the ability to uninstall apps via the Store. I was pretty surprised to detect that this fairly uncomplicated feature request wasn't available afterwards sitting at the top for several months, but alas, hither nosotros are.

When an app is installed, visiting its page on the Microsoft Store simply gives you the option to launch, or pivot to first, with the power to share and pin to taskbar hidden in an ellipses bill of fare. As if the abundance of different context menu types on Windows wasn't confusing enough, the fact that some of these options were hidden away in a separate menu when the app page is full of wasted space just seems odd. But I digress.

To uninstall apps from Windows, information technology'due south a fairly unproblematic process of finding them via search, then right-clicking. But all other modern app stores include the ability to manage apps via their respective stores, and so why non Windows too?

Option to uninstall via app folio (Windows Feedback Hub)

2. Wishlists

Steam'south wishlist hub.

The number 2 piece of requested feedback which has been sitting around at to the lowest degree for a few months is a simple wishlist arrangement. On Steam, Android, and diverse other modern app stores, users can create a wishlist to save apps and games they may desire to buy later. Steam even provides handy notifications to let you know when an item on your wishlist is on sale, saving you a few bucks in the process. The fact the Microsoft Store doesn't have this, yet, is plain weird.

Wishlists (Windows Feedback Hub)

iii. "Last updated" date

While I'm certain Microsoft has philosophical reasons for not including this feature, this is the third most requested characteristic as pertains to the Microsoft Store. Funnily enough, I'grand pretty sure the Windows Phone 8.1 app store had this feature.

Stores like Android, and Steam, tell you the terminal time an app or game was updated by the developers. This is a bang-up and useful way consumers can effigy out if they're downloading a dead app, like the Windows 10 store'due south UWP Twitter programme, which is thoroughly broken. Thankfully, a quick peek at the user reviews details how expressionless some of these apps are, but information technology would be squeamish if Microsoft forced developers on its platform to exist a piddling chip more transparent, rather than hide the ugly truth... that most apps aren't really existence updated anymore.

App'south "Final updated" date (Windows Feedback Hub)

4. Deleting apps from the library

Microsoft has sorta actioned this, by allowing you to motility apps from the main list into a hidden department. The implementation is the issue. The way our content library is cataloged on the Windows 10 app shop, particularly if you're a long-fourth dimension user, is pretty atrocious to manage.

To hide apps, you have to get through one ellipses menu to observe the library list, then select "show all," and so select filters, and so click on another ellipses and select hide, for each and every individual app. I of the bully things about Windows, particularly if you're a power user, is that you can use the mouse and keyboard in combination to perform complex commands. Why can't I shift highlight the whole list and select hide? Or command click individual items to hide all at one time? Why is "show hidden items" a random text link off to the side, amongst a pile of wasted space?

Information technology all just reeks of poor pattern, planning, and low priorities. And maybe there are good reasons for that, but when you lot're competing with stores like Steam, particularly for gamer's angel, something needs to exist done here.

Remove apps from My Library (Windows Feedback Hub)

Wrapping upwardly

To be fair, I was expecting tons of unanswered requests when I began browsing the Feedback Hub'south Microsoft Shop department, and constitute that Microsoft has been working adequately diligently to action the most pertinent requests. But it isn't enough, and Microsoft must know that.

If the Microsoft Store is prepare to take center phase in the Windows Core OS and Polaris worlds of the future, it has to become a higher priority and look to other storefronts that have go popular for inspiration.