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Re:Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to ... by protomyth on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @01:59PM (#11391464)
If your customers check a setting called “side-loading” in "Updates & Security" under "For developers" with a fairly scary warning, then yes you can sell outside the Windows Store.
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Re:Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to ... by madspindel on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @02:19PM (#11391652)
Nope. Now you can double-click the appx file. Demonstrated on Build keynote.
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Re:Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to ... by protomyth on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @03:10PM (#11392054)
Well, that's a whole lot nicer than their website is currently telling me. I did look for updated instructions as this has been a bit of issue with contractor supplied software.
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Re:Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to ... by anonymfus on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @02:50PM (#11391897)
These settings are about digital signatures of applications.
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