Microsoft Store app picks up dedicated 'Devices' tab for new PCs and hardware

It looks like Microsoft isn't done updating the Store with a new layout in apprehension of the Redstone 4 update due in the coming weeks. Too the contempo addition of Edge Extensions, a new category called Devices has been added in the latest update – version 11802.1001.xi.0 – which went out earlier today across all releases of Windows 10.

'Devices' as a tab is self-explanatory being a separate area where Microsoft tin testify off new Windows hardware including Surfaces, Harmon Kardon Invoke (for those in the U.South.), Xbox consoles, PCs from Dell, HP, Windows Mixed Reality headsets, and accessories. It'southward the same catalog that is all stocked online in the web version of the Microsoft Shop.

Likewise one-click buying of new hardware customers can also pre-society things similar the new upcoming See of Thieves Xbox Pro Charging Stand up. The process lets you lot pick a shipping and payment accost just similar the web store.

The feature of buying devices is not new, per se, but the dedicated tab area for devices is new.

While information technology'due south been a long time in the making (arguably too long) the addition of the total world wide web.microsoft.com/store to the Windows 10 app of the Store should go a long style in increasing point-of-sales for Microsoft and its OEM partners. This new addition of making information technology more visible this evening is only meliorate.

We don't know notwithstanding if the Devices tab is available in all regions just nevertheless, so its appearance may depend on whether the Microsoft Store online is supported in your state.

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