Windows

April 8, 2014

Each week, we bring you a new app recommendation from our colleagues. This week’s Staff App Pick comes from David Chou, principal technology evangelist in Developer & Platform Evangelism at Microsoft.

April 8, 2014

To help safeguard your personal data, we recommend that you upgrade your PC to a modern Windows operating system or move to a new Windows PC or tablet so you can receive regular security updates to help protect your computer from malicious attacks.

April 8, 2014

TabTale, which creates children’s mobile entertainment and education apps and which has repeatedly been featured among the Top 10 on Apple’s iOS global publisher rankings, recently expanded its proprietary cross-platform development engine to support Windows across PCs, phones, and tablets.

April 7, 2014

The NOOK app from Barnes & Noble delivers a rich selection of books and magazines for reading on your Windows PC or tablet, and now through April 30, new customers get four free magazines – People, TIME, Popular Mechanics and Food Network.

April 4, 2014

Windows App Studio Beta was relaunched Friday so that developers, from novices to experts, can build a universal Windows app project that results in an app for Windows Phone and Windows, all in a single session.

April 3, 2014

“With universal Windows apps, developers can choose to let users download a free app or purchase an app once and install it across all of their compatible Windows devices, as well as allow users to access in-app purchases across their compatible Windows devices,” Todd Brix notes in a blog post on Wednesday.

April 3, 2014

The source code of the Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS) is being released under the Apache 2.0 license as an Open Source project by Microsoft Open Technologies, it was announced Thursday.