![]() ![]() Picture touch-up? Pixlr Editor works reasonably well. For personal use, Office web apps are more than adequate for most people. In reply to Bart:Myself, I'd be thrilled if MSFT ditched the Home SKU and sold only S and Pro, with an upgrade path from S to Pro (possibly for a one-time fee) and a downgrade path from Pro to S (for free), then be open about what its customers chose to use.Re simple and just works, a Chromebook with links to Office web apps is simple and just works (OK, as long as there's a solid network connection). Google pissing all over MSFT won't change that. Some people who've been using PCs for decades may not appreciate MSFT locking down Windows and forcing all software to be installed from the MSFT Store.Would that also mean that new Windows Lockdown version wouldn't be able to run portable software (which doesn't require installation)? How about people developing their own EXEs? They'd have to load them into the store before running them?It may not be valuable to some, but it's valuable to others to be able to install, say, 10-year-old utilities they've come to rely upon, old games whose vendors have gone out of business so won't ever be coming to the store.I figure one of the last things MSFT would ever do is give millions of home PC users any reason to check whether Linux Crossover (or wine) could run enough of their own Windows software that they no longer need Windows itself. PCs have been able to run 3rd party software from anywhere since the 1970s (original Altair, then Tandys, etc). In reply to Bart:Depends whether decades of history should count for anything. It basically removes the need for you to open Internet Explorer (or Microsoft Edge) and manually go to the Chrome download page everytime you set up a new Windows 10 installation. At the end of the day, the Google Chrome Installer is still very, very pointless - the only functionality of the so-called installer is to open the download link for Chrome on your default browser. Still, Google has never cared much for the Microsoft/Store in the past, and the company’s newest app for Microsoft’s app store simply reiterates that. To be fair, Microsoft does not allow web browsing apps on its store unless they are using the EdgeHTML and JS engines provided by UWP, which is potentially the reason behind Google not bringing the actual Chrome browser to the Microsoft Store as it uses Chromium. From there, users follow the usual download link to download and install the browser using the default browser on their operating system. ![]() The company today released the Google Chrome Installer on the Microsoft Store, which is a modern Windows 10 web wrapper app that loads the Google Chrome download page. Google is bringing its Chrome browser to the Microsoft Store in Windows 10. That’s one less crapware on the Microsoft Store, so this is good news either way. It’s not clear whether Google or Microsoft removed the app from the store. Try to install Chrome now.Update: The Google Chrome Installer has now been pulled from the Microsoft Store following all the backlash from users. Expand the Clients key and right-click at key, if it exists.ħ.
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