Win32 apps and games arrive in the Windows Store

Microsoft today announced the first Win32 apps and games are now available in the Windows Store. You’ll need Windows 10 with the Anniversary Update released last month to get them.

At its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft unveiled the Desktop App Converter, which lets developers bring existing Windows applications to the Windows Universal Platform (UWP). The goal is to get as many of the 16 million existing Win32/.Net applications to the Windows Store as possible. The company started taking Windows Store submissions for apps and games converted using the Desktop App Converter in August. Now the first ones are finally available.