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Microsoft offers ‘Arm Advisory Service’ for developers

Ryan Daws — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 08:55:16 +0000

To bolster the development of native software for Arm-powered PCs, Microsoft has unveiled its “Arm Advisory Service for developers”. The new initiative aims to ensure app compatibility for Windows on Arm, a version specifically designed for the processor architecture. Microsoft’s announcement comes in response to research from analyst firm Counterpoint which predicts a substantial rise... Read more »

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BUILD 2023: Microsoft wants every Windows dev ‘to be an AI developer’

Ryan Daws — Wed, 24 May 2023 14:43:29 +0000

Microsoft announced significant investments in tools during BUILD 2023 to democratise app development for the AI era on Windows. Regardless of the architecture you’re developing for, be it x86/x64 or Arm64, Microsoft wants to ensure that developers can easily integrate AI-powered experiences into their Windows apps, whether they run on the cloud or at the... Read more »

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Windows Subsystem for Android is now considered stable

Ryan Daws — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:12:31 +0000

Microsoft is making good on its promise to fully support Android apps on Windows. Following the demise of Windows Phone, Microsoft has put its weight behind Android. The company adopted Google’s OS for its Surface Phone and said that Android apps will run on Windows 11 as if they were native. In reality, Android app... Read more »

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Microsoft sets out to woo regulators with ‘Open App Store Principles’

Ryan Daws — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:31:23 +0000

Microsoft is getting ahead of potential new laws governing app stores by announcing its Open App Store Principles. Last week, Developer reported on Apple’s latest fight against such legislation after the company sent a letter to US lawmakers urging them to reject S. 2710—a bill that would force Apple to open its notorious “walled garden”... Read more »

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Microsoft: Universal Windows Platform is finally being sunset

Ryan Daws — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 10:25:24 +0000

Thomas Fennel, Principal Program Lead at Microsoft, clarified this week that Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is finally being sunset. In an announcement on the GitHub repo for the Windows App SDK, Fennel says that UWP will only receive “bug, reliability, and security fixes,” and won’t be receiving new features. In other words, it’s being deprecated.... Read more »

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Windows Subsystem for Linux is now delivered via the Microsoft Store

Ryan Daws — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:33:42 +0000

Anyone wanting to use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) should now grab it from the Microsoft Store. WSL enables Linux binary executables to be run natively on Windows 10, 11, and Server 2019. The compatibility layer was previously obtained through the ‘Turn Windows Features on or off’ dialogue, which required a machine restart. By decoupling... Read more »

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Source code for the hopefully defunct Windows XP leaks online

Ryan Daws — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 13:22:55 +0000

Please say you’re not still using Windows XP. Unlike the code released yesterday by Frictional Games for its Amnesia series, the leak of Microsoft’s source code wasn’t intentional. We can’t endorse looking at stolen code or link to it… but, well, we can tell you it’s out there. Looking at what makes an OS tick... Read more »

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Hey, Swift developers! You can now build Windows apps

Ryan Daws — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:58:26 +0000

Swift developers can now build apps for Windows using their language of choice. In a blog post, Swift Core team member Saleem Abdulrasool announced the release of Swift toolchain images for Windows. The toolchains contain various components required for building and running Swift code on Microsoft’s operating system. Apparently, it’s taken over a year’s worth... Read more »

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Brad Smith: Microsoft was ‘on the wrong side of history’ with open-source

Ryan Daws — Tue, 19 May 2020 15:40:31 +0000

Microsoft president Brad Smith has admitted the company was “on the wrong side of history” when it comes to open-source software. Redmond has had a rocky relationship with open-source software, especially Linux. Back in 2001, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously called Linux “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything... Read more »

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