# Any plans to distribute Julia through the W10 store?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-plans-to-distribute-julia-through-the-w10-store/19276
**Category:** Internals & Design
**Tags:** windows
**Created:** [January 4, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-plans-to-distribute-julia-through-the-w10-store/19276 "2019-01-04T18:04:13Z")
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### Author:  [@affans](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/affans)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-plans-to-distribute-julia-through-the-w10-store/19276/1 "2019-01-04T18:04:13Z")
Even though the Microsoft store on W10 is not as popular as other platforms, I don’t think it’s too difficult a job to distributed Julia through the Microsoft store. Recently Python 3.7 was put in the store. I am not sure what their rational was, but to me it dosn’t seem like a bad thing to do.
Some PROS:
- Sandboxed
- Installs to the users %appdata% folder (I am fairly certain that’s where it installs now).
- Add UWP features if needed.
- Increased reach and exposure.
Link to MS documentation: [Building an MSIX package from your code overview - MSIX | Microsoft Docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop-to-uwp-root)
Thoughts?
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### Author:  [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-plans-to-distribute-julia-through-the-w10-store/19276/2 "2019-01-04T18:07:40Z")
> [@affans](#):
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> Installs to the users %appdata% folder
That’s a big CON to me.🙂
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### Author:  [@swissr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/swissr)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-plans-to-distribute-julia-through-the-w10-store/19276/3 "2019-01-04T19:26:02Z")
Don’t know about the store (don’t use it) and/or such plans. But maybe chocolatey is interesting for you? I had/wanted to setup a side Windows 10 system and installed almost everything via those packages, i.e. in the case of [https://chocolatey.org/packages/Julia](https://chocolatey.org/packages/Julia) :
```
choco install julia
```
and done.