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Zac Bowden

Microsoft makes it free for developers to publish Windows apps on the Microsoft Store

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Microsoft has announced that it's waiving the fees involved with signing up and submitting an app for listing on the Microsoft Store on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Starting in June, it will be free for individuals to get their apps into the Windows app store for the first time.

Announced as part of its Build 2025 developer conference, Microsoft is the first tech giant with an active app store platform to make it entirely free for developers to sign up and submit apps to the storefront. Until today, Microsoft charged individual developers a one-time fee of $19.

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