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Microsoft unveiled its development strategy for Windows 8 at its BUILD conference last month in Anaheim. One of the biggest development shifts was the announcement of the Windows Runtime (WinRT).

Will WinRT thrive in the guise of UWP, or are we looking at a repeat of the demises of Silverlight and ActiveX? With the start of the Build conference a day away and the official Microsoft Build app ...

Some users are facing an issue in which they are not able to open Microsoft Store apps such as Photos, Calculators, Maps, etc. They are also not able to find the Microsoft Store. In fact, they even ...

Microsoft has so far been rather coy when it comes to the actual performance characteristics of their forthcoming WinRT tablets. That’s to have been expected due to the new ARM requirements but many ...

Microsoft isn’t yet talking about the next update to Windows Phone. Though the company has made a series of small updates to Windows Phone 8, with three delivered so far, the platform is more or less ...

Microsoft officials went public with some new details about its strategy for enabling developers to write once and run on any version of Windows during a deep-dive session at Mobile World Congress on ...

Those hoping for fewer Windows editions than in previous versions, your prayers have been answered. Sort of.... It's official as of today, April 16: Windows 8 is the name for the next version of ...

Microsoft's Rust for Windows dev team announced the new v0.9 update provides full consumption support, meaning the language is now capable of calling any Windows API. That's done with a language ...