In announcing Windows 11, Microsoft said a more open Microsoft Store ecosystem will provide more opportunities for developers. "We're enabling developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to ...

In Vernor Vinge’s science fiction novel A Deepness in the Sky, one of the characters works as a software archaeologist, mining thousands of years of code and libraries to find the solutions to ...

In late March, the first builds of Windows 8.1 leaked to the Web. At about the same time, the number of Windows 8 apps reversed several months of slowing growth and charted four straight months of app ...

Microsoft is trying to make Windows app development feel a lot less painful. This week, the company unveiled winapp, a new open-source command-line tool designed to cut through the setup, packaging, ...

A few hours after Microsoft unveils the next generation of Windows, it will hold another event focused on app development. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Microsoft today announced a major new initiative that will finally alleviate some of the persistent confusion around Windows app development. Project Reunion, as it is called, is meant to unify the ...