Microsoft has begun chopping at the roots of the UWP apps that populate the Microsoft Store, as it quietly announced plans to stop monetizing them using its own ad platform. That’s opened the door for ...

Why might you want your favorite apps recoded into Microsoft’s UWP format? According to one Microsoft executive, it’s because your app will help your PC run more efficiently over its lifetime.

There’s a lot of old Win32s, WinForms, and WPF code out there, and now Microsoft plans to make it easy to bring it to Windows 10’s UWP Platform transitions are hard, moving from silicon to silicon or ...

Microsoft is investing heavily into PC gaming, and UWP might not be a part of that plan. Gears of War 5 on PC will use the more flexible Win32 API in both its Steam and Windows Store versions instead ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's 2020, and Microsoft is still juggling two very different APIs (application programming interfaces) in Windows 10. In one corner, you've got the old-school Win32 API and its decades-long legacy.