Windows 10: Microsoft launches another series of PWAs for Windows 10

Microsoft suffered a big setback in its efforts to boost the market share of Windows Phone and the number of must-have apps in its Windows 10 Store. The company hoped to motivate third-party app developers to embrace the new Windows 10 app platform with Project Astoria and Centennial but nothing worked in the company’s favour.

Microsoft is aware of the much-discussed app gap problem with Windows 10 devices and the company hasn’t given up yet. The Redmond-tech giant Microsoft is trying to fill that ‘gap’ by publishing the Progressive Web Apps (PWA) in the Store.

Microsoft recently announced that it will use its search engine Bing to crawl, index the PWAs and publish them in the Windows Store with the owner’s permission.

Microsoft quietly published new Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in the Store for Windows 10 devices. It’s a new series of Progressive Web Apps and it recovers a wide range of categories. It’s likely that Microsoft will be able to fill the app gap to some extent with its Progressive Web Apps.

The progressive web apps Rand McNally, STYLECRAZE, News dot com Australia, Boots UK, EBTH, EstateSales.NET and Rocketmiles are now available for download in the Microsoft Store (formerly known as Windows Store).

The PWA is a web app, and it can be installed on any device including Android, Windows and Chromebook. The users would never have to worry about the maintenance and features of PWAs as everything is automatic, which means that there’s no need to head to the Microsoft Store to get new versions of PWAs. You just need to re-launch and wait a few seconds to see new features and content.

What do you think about Progressive Web Apps? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

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How to Install PWA on Lumia510 with Win10?

Hello,

I was very excited to know the developments that MS is doing with PWA. I have a Nokia Lumia 510 with Windows 10 installed on it. And just about when I was thinking to get rid of it, there seems a doorway.

So primary questions are as follows:

1. How to install a PWA on the Nokia Lumia 510 running on Windows 10?

2. Are MS PWAs different from MS UWPs?

3. Are MS PWAs different from Google PWAs? Other than framework that it is built in.

4. How to deploy a MS PWA so it is available across devices and OSs?

Thanks,

A

 

How to Install PWA on Lumia510 with Win10?

Joe, thanks for the other inputs.

The STRORE doesn't show PWA.

For example Twitter has both a native app for MS and a PWA. When look up the store, it only shows the native app, not the PWA.

So is it to be understood that the Twitter PWA is available by the web browser? If so, how does one pin it to the home screen? That is a more specific a Nokia Lumia 510 query.