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Win32 apps are coming to the Microsoft Store, but they won’t receive updates through the Store

The Microsoft Store is a combination of app store, game store and movie store. And when Windows 11 debuts later this year, it’ll bring an updated user interface. But it’ll also bring support for more types of applications: Microsoft says you’ll be able to find and download Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, Progressive Web apps, […]

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Microsoft brings Win32 desktop apps to Windows Mixed Reality

The Windows Mixed Reality experience in Windows 10 lets you put on a VR headset and interact with apps, games, and videos in a more immersive way than you would wall staring at a monitor or laptop screen. But what if you just want to do some web browsing, check out a PowerPoint presentation, or […]

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Qualcomm and Microsoft: ARM chips will support desktop Windows software in 2017

Soon you may be able to run desktop Windows software on devices with ARM-based processors. Rumors had suggested that Microsoft was working to add support for ARM chips to future versions of Windows 10 by making it possible for 64-bit ARM processors to emulate x86 chip architecture. Now Qualcomm has confirmed that this is true, […]

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Tools for turning legacy Windows apps into Universal apps coming this summer

Microsoft’s Windows Store often gets knocked for not having as many apps as the Google Play Store or Apple’s App Store… but Windows has been around a long time, and Microsoft says there are more than 16 million apps developed for the Win32 and .NET platforms. So the company is giving developers tools to port […]

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This is how Win32 apps can become Windows Store apps

Microsoft recently introduced a set of tools that will let developers take existing Android, iOS, web, or classic Windows apps and turn them into Universal Windows Apps that can be distributed through the Windows Store. It’ll be up to developers to decide whether to use those tools, but if they do it the Windows Store might […]

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Windows 10 Store to support Android, iOS, Win32, and web apps (sort of)

Microsoft introduced the Windows Store with the launch of Windows 8 a few years ago… but it’s often been described as a bit of a wasteland when compared with the Google Play Store or App Store for Android and iOS. That could soon change if developers start to take advantage of a new set of […]