iTunes now available from the Microsoft Store for Windows 10

The twenty-four hours has finally arrived: iTunes is now bachelor in the Microsoft Store. Nosotros've known iTunes was coming to the Microsoft Store for some time, merely Windows 10 users can now become their hands on the app, admitting a little later than originally anticipated.

For a portion of Windows x users, iTunes' appearance on the Microsoft Store may not matter much because they can apply the standard desktop app. Where it will have an bear on, however, is for anyone using Windows 10 S, which is locked down and but allows installation of apps from the Microsoft Store. For those users, the full desktop iTunes experience should exist available here, complete with access to Apple Music streaming and iPhone syncing.

Apple's effort to bring iTunes to the Microsoft Shop follows a similar move from Spotify, which brought its PC app to the Shop terminal year using the Desktop Bridge. As Microsoft pushes Windows 10 S (eventually South Mode) as a low-hassle Windows option for students, schools and businesses, both apps represent potentially important additions to the Microsoft Store.

If you're an iTunes user, y'all tin catch the app at present from the Microsoft Store. If you already have the iTunes desktop app installed, exist aware that the Microsoft Shop version will remove the older install and migrate your settings the kickoff time you run it.

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