5 ways Microsoft could unify and improve their consumer apps and services
(Windows Phone Central)

With so many teams within Microsoft, some apps and services aren`t keeping up. Here are some baselines that all consumer services should meet. Microsoft has a stable of well-known apps and services and continues to roll out more each year. While many of these are great, quite a few of them seem to be missing features or design elements that should be standard across all consumer services from Microsoft. Microsoft needs to create a baseline standard that all apps and services that come out of Redmond should meet. If each product that shipped to consumers had a core set of features and design choices, it would unify the experience on Windows 10 and encourage more developers to meet the same standard. Be available through the Microsoft Store It`s a bit odd that this has to be a point at all. Microsoft needs to roll out all of its consumer services through the Microsoft Store. Not only would this get services onto Windows devices, but it would show that Microsoft is committed to th...