Microsoft’s Build developer conference is taking place online as a virtual event this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But it looks like the company is still planning to spell out its vision for the ...

Last week, I wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian expressing concern that Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs comprised a first step toward locking down the currently open ...

Microsoft today announced a major new initiative that will finally alleviate some of the persistent confusion around Windows app development. Project Reunion, as it is called, is meant to unify the ...

Developers doing Windows apps have a confusing arsenal of tools and frameworks to work with, but Microsoft is simplifying things a bit with a new Visual Studio workload that highlights the company's ...

It's all just "Windows apps" from here on out. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Project Reunion combines Win32 and UWP app ...

It's 2020, and Microsoft is still juggling two very different APIs (application programming interfaces) in Windows 10. In one corner, you've got the old-school Win32 API and its decades-long legacy.

Arguably the biggest news out of Microsoft’s Build 2015 conference is that developers will be able to bring Web apps, Windows desktop apps (Win32), as well as Android and iOS mobile apps to the ...