Why might you want your favorite apps recoded into Microsoft’s UWP format? According to one Microsoft executive, it’s because your app will help your PC run more efficiently over its lifetime.

There’s a common question that’s asked any time a company rolls out a new set of SDKs or APIs: “How do I get started?” That’s not the real question, of course. At heart, it’s a placeholder for a more ...

There’s a lot of old Win32s, WinForms, and WPF code out there, and now Microsoft plans to make it easy to bring it to Windows 10’s UWP Platform transitions are hard, moving from silicon to silicon or ...

Is Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform a stepping stone to more modern Windows 10 apps or recognition that traditional PC applications are the foundation of Windows? Windows 10 (like Windows 8 ...

When it comes to reducing the gap between multiple platforms, Microsoft is a name that comes to the forefront. After the massive failure of their Windows Mobile platform, the company has taken upon ...

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.