It's been months (almost 11) since Microsoft introduced its new developer platform, anchored by the WinRT application programming interfaces, at the Build conference in September 2011. That updated ...

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Microsoft’s drift from the proprietary and toward the universal is making its mark on all aspects of Windows software development, including writing C++ software that uses the Windows Runtime (WinRT), ...

Some users are facing an issue in which they are not able to open Microsoft Store apps such as Photos, Calculators, Maps, etc. They are also not able to find the Microsoft Store. In fact, they even ...

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Microsoft has so far been rather coy when it comes to the actual performance characteristics of their forthcoming WinRT tablets. That’s to have been expected due to the new ARM requirements but many ...

Microsoft officials went public with some new details about its strategy for enabling developers to write once and run on any version of Windows during a deep-dive session at Mobile World Congress on ...

Microsoft is previewing a Windows Update orchestration platform for app developers and management tool vendors, aiming to centralize update scheduling across Windows 11 devices.… On Tuesday, Redmond ...

Google announced on Thursday that its Chrome browser will be available for testing on the Windows 8 release preview. The test browser will be released at the Google Chrome dev channel for Windows, ...

Microsoft unveiled a preview of authoring support in an update to the C#/WinRT tool used to help C# developers more easily work with interfaces to the Windows Runtime, the underlying infrastructure ...

The .NET ecosystem can seem confusing as Microsoft transitions from the old Windows-only .NET Framework to an open-source, cross-platform approach filled with moving parts for a variety of targets.