Coming to the Microsoft Store

What the Store version gives you

• A signed, validated package. Windows verifies the package before it installs, which is the practical reason to prefer a store listing over a file downloaded from a search result.
• Updates handled by Windows. There is no separate updater process and no need to check a website for a new version — the Store keeps it current.
• Install and uninstall like any other app. It appears in Settings → Apps, installs per-user, and needs no administrator rights.
• Nothing else to install first. Everything the app needs ships inside the package, so it works on a clean machine.

What it will need

How you will know it is genuinely live

A pre-release product is an obvious target for lookalike downloads, so it is worth being concrete about this.

• This page will carry the Store link, and it will point at a apps.microsoft.com or ms-windows-store: address — not a file host.
• The Store listing is the only distribution channel. StegoPixel is not being released as a standalone installer download from this site.
• Search the Store directly. Once published, searching for “StegoPixel” in the Microsoft Store app will find it, with the publisher name matching the listing.

While you wait

The product is finished enough that its behaviour can be described precisely, so the useful thing to do now is find out whether it does what you need: