Making Sense of Windows Store Developer Accounts
I found it rather annoying having to dig through pages of documentation regarding publication of Windows Store Apps just to figure out what kind of account I needed to create. So, here’s a quick table to see the comparison at an extremely basic level.
| Individual Developer | Company Developer | Enterprise Developer | OEM Developer | |
| DreamSpark / Student Account Capable | X | |||
| Submit Modern UI (aka Metro, aka Windows Store) Apps to the Windows Store | X | X | X | X |
| Submit Desktop Apps to the Windows Store | X | X | X | |
| Create Account with SSN (US only) | X | If registered as Individual | ||
| Create Account with EIN (US only) | X | If registered as Company | X |
One other thing to note is that Individual Accounts cannot use the following “app capabilities.”
Reference: Publishing your app to the Store