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 ...
Web apps made Windows slower, clunkier, and less compelling. Microsoft is finally scrambling to fix it—it's about time.
Windows 11 is full of web apps that make your PC slower and less enjoyable to use, so I'm excited about the prospect of a ...
WhatsApp has announced that its new app for Windows is now live. It ditches the web-based Electron framework in favor of Windows-native Universal Windows Platform (UWP) technologies. Up until now, 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 ...
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 ...
Former Microsoft exec reveals how decades of shifting GUI strategies left Windows development fragmented and confusing for ...