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well hey this is Thomas Houston from the verge and we're checking out the windows 8 consumer preview specifically here we're checking out the the new windows store so first I'll you load it up and it's it's pretty similar to most stores you're seeing you know the top paid top free in the list of new releases seems to be pretty fast very responsive and you've got you know things you've got cut the rope you've got selections from USA Today the usual finance Vimeo the Telegraph and there's a lot of apps here so we're going to hop in check out the top free apps and we don't have maps installed yet so let's check that out you'll find a full overview couple screenshots here much like most other app stores basic description full details and then user reviews and we've got one already and then over here on the left you have you know where it works the basic requirements and user ratings and so to install all you do is tap install and it immediately starts first time you try to install something when you're logged in its going to ask you for a password otherwise it'll start downloading and as soon as it's downloaded you get a notification and you can just pull it up here and here's New York and then you'll also find that you'll have a tile installed on your Start screen so early earlier we installed vimeo and it here and with maps it's right here additionally updates are built in so if you go to the App Store and click on the top right you'll see all the updates that are available and fortunately don't have to go in and select each one you can just click install and it gives and installs all three apps or the updates for all three apps so the Windows Store is broken down by categories up at the top in the first view you'll see all stars top paid top free across all categories but then as you move to the right you'll see different categories broken out so game social entertainment and quite a few others and some of them you can dig down and look at top paid top free but for things like social where it seems there there aren't too many there's only a couple apps and to you don't have full breakouts yet but we expect as you know more apps are available on the store you're going to see these additional breakouts but yes you see books and reference news and weather food and dining shopping travel finance productivity and on and on and then clicking any of the icons on the individual page takes you directly to that app and you can install there although it's not obvious at first search is integrated into the App Store it's not here and you won't see it on this on the primary pains but we what you can do is swipe in from the right and you'll find the search button and so if you want to go and download evernote you can type it in and recommendations will start to show up here live as soon as you hit search they'll show up over here on the left and if you have a look if you have a lot of results you can go in and search by sort by relevance sort price and sort by category it's also worth noting that with Windows Store whenever you download anything these apps are going to be available across all of your windows 8 devices so if you install this on a tablet here and then you know install windows 8 on your on your desktop machine you know you'll be able to find Evernote synched up on both of those devices or Vimeo and all of your other apps so it's consistent across the entire your entire into windows 8 ecosystem this is the Windows Store and it's available now for anyone that's downloaded the windows 8 consumer build so go check it out you