Microsoft is evolving its popular Windows App Studio, and renaming it to Windows Template Studio, along with making it easier for developers to create UWP apps. The tool allowed people with minimal ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Windows is one of the most-used operating systems in the entire world, and its latest iteration, ...

There's no shortage of frameworks available for building chatbots (bots), and Microsoft has been working hard to ensure they make it easy for developers to build bots that work across a variety of ...

Last week, I wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian expressing concern that Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs comprised a first step toward locking down the currently open ...

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 ...

For months, many pundits, partners and customers have wondered aloud whether Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (UWP) has a future. Officially, the story is UWP is alive and well. But the Win32 ...

Microsoft wants developers to build apps for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), the set of APIs and frameworks that allows developers to build applications that are substantially compatible with ...

The Xbox One is about to become a development platform for everyone. With this summer's anniversary update, developers creating UWPs will be able to turn their Xbox Ones into a development unit and ...

Microsoft just reached a major milestone for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) on the Xbox One, releasing the first-ever UWP app for the console. But shifting Windows apps onto Microsoft’s console ...

Chatbots are the new mobile application. In this article, Nick demonstrates how you can integrate a bot right into your Universal Windows Platform app via the Microsoft Bot Framework Direct Line API.