Here's what went wrong with the Windows App Store and how Microsoft is trying to get things right for the future. But is it too late?

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft started cutting its $19 one-time fee to publish apps to its Windows store in June in certain markets, and it’s now ...

Unofficial third-party Windows tools and utilities are pretty popular among Windows enthusiasts. However, these tools can often break certain aspects of the OS. Recently, a popular Windows 11 ...

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, ...

Over the past few years, Microsoft has been pushing to migrate UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps to the newer Windows App SDK. The transition hasn’t been completely smooth, though, and the company ...

WebView2 is now generally available for desktop UWP apps. The rollout of WebView2 support coincided with the release of WinUI 2.8, which became available earlier this year. WebView2 lets developers ...

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 ...

What is Microsoft's universal apps strategy? The current state of affairs. Enter Windows 10 and universal apps. What this means to the investor. What is Microsoft's Universal Apps Strategy? The ...

Support for coding Windows apps has arrived with Flutter 2.10, Google's open source framework for building natively compiled, multi-platform applications from a single codebase. "Today, we're thrilled ...