Microsoft wants to know your favorite Windows apps
Microsoft wants to recognize the best apps on Windows and inspire developers to create more applications.
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What you need to know
Microsoft wants to know which Windows apps people love. The company has opened nominations for the best apps available through the Microsoft Store. In addition to recognizing good applications, Microsoft wants to “inspire others to build beautiful and useful apps for Windows.”
You can nominate your favorite app by filling out aform from Microsoft. If you’d like to nominate multiple apps, you can fill out a separate form for each one.
There are a handful of requirements for apps to qualify for nomination:
Microsoft’s form has a section for describing why an app is worthy of nomination. There’s also a checklist of outstanding qualities for applications, such as making strong use of Windows features, looking nice, being useful, and providing unique functionality.
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Our list of thebest Windows appsshould help you get started if you’re looking for applications to nominate.
Microsoft emphasizes that its form is not part of a voting process. It’s only for receiving nominations for people’s favorite apps. Nominations are open now and will close on March 31, 2022 at midnight Pacific time.
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