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Apple finally making the transition to a services company with UWP apps for Windows

11 months

The iPod did not really explode until Apple provided support for Windows, and even today the vast majority of iPhone owners also run Windows. Apple has been a company in transition, with an increased emphasis on services as its iP...

Rudy Huyn completed journey, ends up at Microsoft

by Surur

1 year

In September we reported that famed Windows Phone developer Rudy Huyn had left Dropbox after 4 years. It seems Huyn landed on his feet, and has joined Microsoft, according to a tweet he posted earlier today. After 9 years of close...

Evidence Microsoft may be working to port the UWP runtime to Android

by Surur

1 year

We have said repeatedly that there is no UWP developer story without porting UWP to Android. Till now there has been limited indication that Microsoft is working on this. Now however a Github repository has popped up suggesting Mi...

Microsoft tells developers they can run their UWP apps on the Surface Duo

by Surur

1 year

For most pragmatists, the news that Microsoft decided to launch its Andromeda hardware with Android was welcome news, but for a large number of the faithful who had been waiting 5 years for the Surface Phone, the news was a major ...

Rudy Huyn has left Dropbox

by Surur

1 year

Nearly exactly 4 years ago we reported that famed UWP developer Rudy Huyn was joining Dropbox. At the time he had been making a number of unofficial UWP apps for services such as Instagram and Dropbox, and after joining the compan...

OneDrive for Windows 10 to be the latest UWP app to be replaced by a PWA

by Surur

1 year

Microsoft has been slowly phasing out its old UWP apps in favour of more universal applications built on web technologies, and it appears the latest victim of the trend is the unloved OneDrive UWP app. Noticed by Windows developer...

Notepads is a new UWP Notepad alternative in Microsoft Store and it feels more native to Windows 10 than the o...

by Rahul

1 year

Developer Jackie Liu has developed a beautiful Notepad alternative. Based on UWP, the app offers exactly what every Windows 10 fan wants, and to be honest, the app feels more native to Windows 10 than the original Notepad app by M...

As Dropbox moves to an Electron app, “UWP is as alive as S Mode”

by Surur

1 year

Dropbox is replacing their Windows 10 UWP app with a new app based on Electron. Dropbox notes: It’s the Dropbox you know and love, but better. It’s a single workspace to organize your content, connect your tools, and bring eve...

Microsoft finally pushing Win32 support for Windows Store and Windows 10

by Lewis White

1 year

Microsoft will fully support Win32 titles in the Microsoft Store, as of today. While the company’s “revolutionary” UWP format was designed to replace the older Win32 app format, Microsoft appears to be back-peddl...

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

by Surur

1 year

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

1 year

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...

Is a Whatsapp UWP app the reason for a halt in updates?

by Atiya

1 year

Windows 10 mobile users may have noticed that the new Whatsapp updates, including the stickers, haven’t arrived as promised. Whatsapp have reportedly taken a break from working on the app to focus on another project. With...