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Comment by bradford | Hacker News Reader

Ok, but the brief README links to an actual microsoft.com domain (https://www.microsoft.com/store).

Why would you need a package to wrap a website? Wouldn't the website be accessible on a LTSC build, even if the official package isn't available?

If this is filling a highly useful role that I'm admittedly oblivious to, why are there only three commits in the project history?

(Best I can tell, this is a personal project that somehow made it to HN front page)

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The store is also an app on windows and is sometimes an hard dependency to install apps that only exist on the windows store without having to jump through many hoops. It's usually part of windows itself in the regular retail builds of windows, but LTSC which is meant for enterprise and embedded system does not include it. Installing it is not straightforward which is what this repo provides.

There's no source code, it's a just a bunch of binaries and an install/uninstall script.

Edit: I should clarify that the link provided in the repo is not the microsoft store that the apps refer to. This would be a better link https://apps.microsoft.com

Its not just the store - its also the XBOX app/store and the framework to install "modern" applications that are .msix, appx, appxbundle.

I'm not seeing those attached to the repo linked here, and wonder if thats part of the reason why it wont work on older LTSC versions.

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