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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft finally has a permanent fix for systems suffering from the broken Start menu, Windows Search, and misbehaving UWP apps. The necessary update is now available for Windows 10 and 11. Last ...

From MSI installers to AppX, MSIX, and the modern Microsoft Store: the full history of how Windows learned to package apps.