the installation of apps and games from the windows store is the only way to get apps on windows rt, a mobile version of windows 8 or windows 8.1 designed to run on tablets. normal apps such as google chrome, world's most popular web browser can't be installed through any web browser on the internet for windows rt, even through internet explorer, which is a built in web browser in windows rt, and also in windows 8 or windows 8.1 and earlier.