the windows store honestly could have been a really good addition when it was released in windows 8, it could have increased security tenfold by being a replacement for downloading exe files manually, which typically come with lots of malware. unfortunately, they completely fucked it up by requiring all store apps to run in fullscreen and by preventing companies like google and mozilla to put their web browsers on it. if it had support for typical win32 apps, i think it could have been a major win for microsoft which would have modernized the windows experience, unfortunately instead they completely botched it and didn't fix it until many years later, when it was already too late and everyone saw it as useless, i doubt the microsoft store will ever recover from their initial blunder
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@mjdxp Getting rid of Win32 software completely might have also been a good thing — the idea of running same apps on desktop, mobile, Xbox, etc wasn't bad at all. But of course the were indecisive and eventually killed off first their mobile platform and later UWP apps on others. And they have tried to "fix" the store which turned it into a complete clusterfuck, now it's a collection of poorly maintained UWP apps, ugly-looking Win32 ones and web apps that work in MS Chrome — worst of all worlds.
