Why is it so hard to find desktop applications in the Windows

Microsoft waited almost a year to allow desktop apps in when they should have done it from the get-go. Also, they quietly announced it so not a lot of people know about it.

Unfortunately I think they missed their chance and developers will continue putting their apps on download sites instead.

It could have been great, I would have loved to be able to just open up the store, type in the app name and just install like the Mac App Store and Ubuntu Software Center, but it looks like we'll have to continue dealing with crawling the web and piling up EXEs in the downloads folder.

>>58933994
This. I can't stand installers that try to put in unrelated bloat bundled with them.

After it was found that Sourceforge had malware in their installers, I agree that more developers should allow that option.

Devs are assholes who hate users

>>58933994
Because nobody uses the store retard

>>58934315
I don't think it's hatred, just apathy. Third-party Windows developers seem to have a lower standard of quality than say, Mac and cross platform developers.

Thank goodness Microsoft introduced UWP to push developers to adhere to a higher standard.

>>58934362
I just installed Evernote from the Windows store. Easiest Windows install of a desktop app ever.

>>58934459
So what? That doesnt change the fact that nobody uses the store. Devs will never consider putting their apps there, even if its easy as fuck.

Its the same thing with windows phone, even if porting apps required 2 clicks, most devs wouldnt do it simply because nobody uses WP.