In the dedicated conversion of applications to generic desktop sessions at the Build 2017 developers conference, Microsoft announced that all Office 2016 applications will be available in the Windows Store. They will include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Now, instead of downloading these applications for Windows 10 on the Office site. Com users can find them in the Windows Store. There will also be offered less popular applications, such as Access and Publisher.

As for the OneNote 2016 program, it will also appear, but Microsoft is going to change it to the universal version in the future.

The What's New section in OneNote on Windows 10 talks about the difference between the classic version of the desktop program and the universal application: the latter will be updated more frequently and receive new features.

The appearance of Office in the Windows Store does not mean abandoning the classic desktop option, which can work even on previous versions of Windows. The appearance of Office 2016 applications in the store is expected in the near future; More precisely, they are already there, but not yet visible to users.