Windows 11 and Windows 10 come loaded with several UWP or Microsoft Store apps. The Microsoft News, Weather, Calculator, Windows Mail, and other applications are based on Microsoft’s modern UWP ...

Writing about technology is often a balancing act. Some people want general tech news, while others want deep dives. When it comes to software and OS development, as a non-programmer I often find ...

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 ...

If when you try to launch a UWP app on Windows 11/10, you notice your installed security software has blocked it from opening or starting, then this post is intended to help you. In it, we will ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft has introduced an open-source UWP Community Toolkit that enables the developer ...

Microsoft unveiled its vision for "unifying and evolving" the Windows developer platform this week with the launch of Project Reunion. Announced during the Microsoft Build virtual event, the project ...

A bug in Windows 10 allowed UWP apps (Universal Windows Platform) to have access to the entire file system in Windows without permission from the user. This could have allowed a malicious app to ...

Among the many announcements at its Build 2016 developer conference last week, Microsoft revealed the Desktop App Converter, the main component in its Project Centennial bridge to turn Win32 desktop ...

Building installers on Windows used to be complicated. It all depended on which installation tool were you using and how was your code being distributed. Could you wrap an executable around a Zip file ...