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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft today has released Windows 10 22H2 Build 19045.3271 (KB5028244), which is C-release or a non-security update. This latest one brings several bug fixes and improvements including Timeout ...

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 ...

When it comes to Windows 11 apps, native doesn't mean what it used to. At least colloquially, native used to refer to a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app made specifically for Windows. Now, "native ...

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

I like how UWP games seem really lightweight with less jank than Win32 counterparts. Like alt+tabbing out of fullscreen games is often really slow and janky on Windows as D3D resources get reset and ...

What tech should a .NET coder use for a new Windows desktop app when presented with a dizzying array of options that include .NET MAUI, WinUI, WinForms, WPF, UWP, Blazor and so on? We've investigated ...

The latest WhatsApp beta UWP release is getting archived chats. You can view archived chats as well as archive and unarchive them, though there is the risk of bugs (this is a beta, after all). The ...

Took me ages just to get the Demo to download. Then once I got it, it had some massive memory leak that would consume every byte of system and video memory within 30 seconds (16GB of system, RX480 ...