At its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft announced that developers can start bringing their Windows apps to the Xbox One. Last year at Build 2015, the company promised app makers would be ...

Windows app developers who are coding their projects for UWP (Universal Windows Platform) have been nudged by Microsoft to abandon that platform and use WinUI 3 instead. However, some developers ...

Microsoft has acknowledged that its efforts to push UWP apps into the market has fundamentally not worked. The company plans to extend UWP features to Win32 apps int he future. Share on Facebook ...

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 shipped a major update of its Windows App SDK, a unifying resource for building various kinds of Windows apps with modern technologies. The company calls the Windows App SDK the evolution of ...

If Windows 10 is key to Microsoft’s effort to succeed in mobile, then the universal app platform is the technology that could make that happen. It promises to bring developers the cross-device nirvana ...

Microsoft has released the Windows App Development CLI (winapp) in public preview, an open source tool automating Windows ...

So it's a "universal" app now? That's going to be really useful for me on the XboxOne, which is supposed to be able to run universal apps (and preview program members are currently starting to see ...

Last month, Microsoft confirmed it could not fix a bug breaking different parts of its desktop operating system. According to the company, the problem could result in the Start menu, Windows Search, ...