"Last week Microsoft announced a brand new command line interface for the Microsoft Store, which you can access right now by opening PowerShell and typing "store." If the command doesn't work, make sure you've run all of the current Windows 11 updates. If it does work, you will see a fancy bit of ASCII art along with a list of sub-commands. This tells you how you can search for, install, and even update software with just a few keystrokes."
"Microsoft's implementation is quite nice. For example, you don't need to know the exact name of the app in order to install something. While testing this new interface, I typed "store install firefox," not knowing if that would work. The tool searched the store, found the app most likely to match "firefox," told me the company that made it (Mozilla, in this case), and asked if that was in fact what I wanted to install."
Microsoft added a command-line interface to the Microsoft Store accessible by running 'store' in PowerShell after Windows 11 updates. The interface displays ASCII art and subcommands to search, install, and update apps with keystrokes. The tool supports fuzzy search, prompting for confirmation when it finds likely matches, simplifying installation compared with package managers that require exact names. The feature mirrors command-line installations familiar to Linux and third-party Mac tools. Limitations include only installing apps available in the Microsoft Store; some popular apps like Google Chrome and Paint.net are not available through it.
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