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Developers sue Apple, demand 3rd party app stores

2 weeks

It seems it is currently open season on Apple, as the company is once again being targeted with an antitrust complaint accusing the company of abusing its monopoly over distribution of apps to iOS users. The complainant on this oc...

Microsoft announces high-performance React Native for Windows

by Pradeep

1 month

Facebook’s React Native framework allows developers to build mobile apps using only JavaScript. It uses the same design as React, allowing developers compose a rich mobile UI using declarative components. At Build 2019, Micr...

Microsoft announces .NET 5, the next big release

by Pradeep

1 month

At Build 2019 yesterday, Microsoft announced .NET 5, the next big release in the .NET family. It is a game-changer for .NET as it will be an unified platform using which developers can target various platforms including Windows, L...

Microsoft announces Visual Studio Online, a web-based code editor

by Pradeep

1 month

Several year back, Microsoft had a service named Visual Studio Online. In 2015, they rebranded it as Visual Studio Team Services. Later it became Azure DevOps Services which offers development collaboration tools including high-p...

Microsoft makes it easy for enterprises to adopt GitHub with new updates

by Pradeep

1 month

At Build 2019 today, Microsoft announced several updates related to GitHub. These updates will help enterprises adopt GitHub easily. First, GitHub Enterprise customers can now synchronize groups of GitHub users with Azure Active D...

Deathwatch for Microsoft Store starts as store Office installer now directs to web

by Surur

2 months

We reported recently on a rumour by Paul Thurrott that Microsoft is set to kill UWP apps and de-emphasize the Microsoft Store. At the time the main evidence for this was Microsoft removing categories such as books and music from t...

Thurrott: It’s “Game Over”, “UWP will disappear”

by Surur

2 months

It would come as no surprise to our readers to hear that prominent Microsoft pundit Paul Thurrott is predicting the virtual end of Universal Windows Platform apps. The platform was initially designed to unify the development of Wi...

Microsoft makes it easier to modernize old desktop apps on Windows

by Pradeep

2 months

In order to access the latest Windows Runtime (WinRT) APIs from any classic WPF or Winforms app, developers need to add contract files and other reference assemblies to their project. Microsoft is making this process easier by rel...

Microsoft announces Windows Vision Skills, a simple set of APIs to build intelligent apps

by Pradeep

2 months

Microsoft today announced Windows Vision Skills, a simple set of APIs that will allow Windows developers to easily build apps to solve complex computer vision problems. In this preview release, Microsoft has included WinRT APIs fo...

After protest, Microsoft restores deleted Technet and MSDN blogs

by Surur

2 months

Microsoft recently started retiring their old Technet employee blogs, often used by employees to explain a new technology and to communicate with developers. When the community realized this Microsoft ran into unexpected protest, ...

Google announces policy changes to improve quality of apps in Play Store

by Pradeep

2 months

Google yesterday announced some policy changes related to Play Store app review process to improve the overall quality of apps available for consumers. These changes will also bring improvements to app submission process for devel...

Arcade has a Windows Phone problem and Apple is spending ‘hundreds of millions’ to fix it

by Raka

2 months

The downfall of iPhone sales signaled the need for Apple to go beyond just iPhone and try its luck in other markets to make profits. The company did just that by launching a slew of services including a gaming service Arcade. Now ...