Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft's Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit is out of beta ...

The Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0 public preview will run only on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 64-bit systems. For those of you who develop on Macs, fret not; there are options for you, writes Carmine ...

Yesterday Microsoft promised to release the Windows Phone 8 SDK at its event in San Francisco. Today, during the opening keynote of its BUILD conference, the SDK went live. If you are into this sort ...

One significant change in the Windows Phone 8 SDK is that the emulators now run on Hyper-V. As per previous versions of the SDK, the emulators are an actual Windows Phone image, which means they ...

Microsoft has released details about its Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview Program for developers. Microsoft has released details about its Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview Program for developers. is a senior ...

Developers enrolled in the Windows Insider Program can now download a preview version of the Windows 10 Software Development Kit, Microsoft exec Cliff Simpkins announced in a blog post. Microsoft ...

Microsoft delivered a beta of a software development kit (SDK) enabling the Kinect sensor to work with Windows PCs in mid-June 2011. But this SDK was licensed for non-commercial use only. The Softies ...

Microsoft's Windows App SDK 1.0 Stable release is live, unifying access to Windows APIs for desktop Windows 10/11 apps in a new scheme that was formerly called "Project Reunion." The "reunion" seeks ...

Two weeks after the operating system itself was finalized, Microsoft has released the Windows Phone 7 SDK to developers. Applications developed with the new SDK will be submittable to the Windows ...

(1) A set of development utilities and programming interfaces from Microsoft for writing Windows applications in languages such as C or C++. The SDK also provides tools for creating custom cursors, ...