Enhanced developer tools on the Microsoft Store

The Microsoft Store on Windows continues to evolve, shaped by ongoing feedback from developers building and scaling apps on the platform. Over the past months, that feedback has guided several updates across onboarding, publishing, distribution and analytics.

We recently shared several updates to the consumer experience, and streamlined the developer onboarding experience for individual developers – reducing the time and effort to create a new developer account in half. We are humbled by the positive feedback received from the developer community so far on the new experience.

We are not done yet. We’re listening, iterating and investing alongside the developer community. In this post, we’ll walk through new features and updates across developer analytics, web installer and new developer tools.

Actionable developer analytics

Developers need fast, reliable ways to understand how their apps are performing, without jumping across multiple reports or guessing where to look….