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Microsoft has disabled the App Installer functionality that allowed Windows 10 apps to be installed directly from a web page by clicking on a link that used the ms-appinstaller URI scheme. This ...

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From MSI installers to AppX, MSIX, and the modern Microsoft Store: the full history of how Windows learned to package apps.