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On Thu, 09 May 2024 12:23:00 -0400, DFS wrote:

> On 5/9/2024 11:51 AM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
> 
>> The problem is that no software of worth was or is available in the
>> Windows Store.
> 
> 
> 
> There's a lot of good stuff in the MS Store now:
> 
> database GUIs a bunch of Python versions IDEs and development tools (eg
> Visual Studio)
> big games like Fallout and Horizon (driving)
> 20+ WSL distros text/photo/video/pdf editors etc
> 
> They even sell the Walking Tall trilogy from the '70s.

Movie and film-wise, they're fine. My collecting of media from there is 
actually quite large now. At the time, the software library was rather 
pathetic though. They could try the Windows S thing today and it might 
work, but even the applications which were rather good at the time gave 
the impression of being bare.