Microsoft’s new winapp CLI simplifies Windows app development with one-command setup, faster testing, and easier packaging. Microsoft is trying to make Windows app development feel a lot less painful.

Fixing context menus and AutoPlay dialog boxes in Windows 11 is a great start. But if Microsoft wants to fix the PC experience, it needs to make better apps.

This new Windows AI push needs developers on board for it to truly work. This new Windows AI push needs developers on board for it to truly work. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who ...

Windows Build 2026 positions AI agents as core to native app development. Microsoft Execution Containers add policy-based sandboxing for safer agent code execution. Windows 365, Aion and Solara expand ...

In Vernor Vinge’s science fiction novel A Deepness in the Sky, one of the characters works as a software archaeologist, mining thousands of years of code and libraries to find the solutions to ...

Megan is a Software Writer at XDA Developers who has been writing about consumer technology since 2016. With a postgraduate degree in New Media journalism, she has always been passionate about diving ...