{"id":968,"date":"2016-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officedevblogs.wpengine.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2016-03-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T08:00:00","slug":"office-store-policy-and-guidance-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/office-store-policy-and-guidance-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Store Policy and Guidance Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here in the Office Store, we’re eager to ensure that we’re providing our customers with compelling, usable add-ins.  In December, we revamped the Office Store policies<\/a> and guidance<\/a> to set a higher user-experience bar for add-ins in the Store.  <\/p>\n

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Starting in March, we will switch to heavily promote those add-ins with high user ratings and wide usage.  Newer add-ins (which have not yet had a chance to be widely used) will be promoted based on (1) the richest functionality<\/strong> for users and (2) a great user experience<\/strong>.  Great add-ins will be promoted on homepages and will appear much more often on the first page of search results.  This promotion will lead to these add-ins being downloaded much more than others in the Store.  All existing add-ins in the Store are being re-evaluated against these new criteria, not just new submissions – and the effects of this will be seen across our storefront pages very soon as our storefront will be populated with the very best add-ins meeting the latest Office Store criteria.  Add-ins which do not<\/em> meet the criteria will fall off the homepage.<\/p>\n

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We’ve also added a page<\/a> on the top tips for improving your add-in ranking, and reducing submission rejection.  We’ll follow up very soon with a blog on adding richer functionality <\/strong>(which will include top tips for Outlook add-ins).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Office Extensibility Team<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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