For months, many pundits, partners and customers have wondered aloud whether Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (UWP) has a future. Officially, the story is UWP is alive and well. But the Win32 ...

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 ...

Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney stirred the hornet’s nest at Microsoft last week when he denounced the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) in an op-ed for The Guardian, criticizing it as “a closed ...

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 ...

Gears of War 4. Forza Horizon 3. Halo Wars 2. State of Decay 2. All these and more games announced by Microsoft during E3 on Monday are part of the Xbox Play Anywhere program. What that means is ...

Yep this is super annoying. The system-level "torrent" that allows windows update to be shared to another PC on the same network also doesn't work for UWP games. Uhu ugh Heck, even ps4 allows you to ...

In a scathing editorial in The Guardian, Epic Games cofounder Tim Sweeney spoke out about Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform (UWP) initiative, calling it a “fiasco” and “the most aggressive move ...

Microsoft’s new UWP-friendly tools bridge the gap between the old and the new worlds of .NET to help old code into the latest .NET stack. Microsoft’s journey to today’s Windows App SDK and Win UI as a ...

Yesterday, we reported that multi-instancing support is coming to Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps in Windows 10. As the name implies, it allows apps to open multiple independent instances which ...

Microsoft is previewing UWP (Universal Windows Platform) support for .NET 9, providing a path for existing UWP developers to modernize their apps with the latest .NET and Native AOT. That's being done ...