Native Windows apps used to be fast, efficient, and everywhere. Now, it's all just a website in a Chromium wrapper.

Sven Reimers shares a few lessons on what to do to advance in a technical career based on technical expertise valued by the industry. In this episode, Adam Jacob, CEO and co-founder at System ...

Microsoft is reportedly going to rebrand its online Windows Store to Microsoft Store. It is also embracing the Web of Apps idea. Like Google, Microsoft now supports Progressive Web Apps. This can make ...

Windows 11 apps like Discord, WhatsApp, and Teams now use 1 to 4GB of RAM because they are web apps and the rising RAM prices ...

In late March, the first builds of Windows 8.1 leaked to the Web. At about the same time, the number of Windows 8 apps reversed several months of slowing growth and charted four straight months of app ...

Microsoft’s newly released Windows 10 offers developers what at first blush appears to be a can’t-miss pitch: Write your app once and run it anywhere Windows exists. With Microsoft’s push toward “one ...

While Windows is a powerful operating system for productivity, so much of what we do with work these days revolves around the web. Whatever your browser of choice — Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, or ...

More than six months on from Microsoft's Windows 8 BUILD event, there are only 99 apps in Microsoft's Windows 8 Store. This certainly seems to suggest that developers are dragging their heels when it ...

When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week ago, the reaction from most circles was positive. The new Windows 8 user interface looks clean, attractive, and thoughtful, and ...

Last week Microsoft included SugarCRM’s Community Edition as a free download in the Windows Web App Gallery. SugarCRM, a popular open source CRM platform, is one of 8 applications added to the gallery ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft had a dream with Windows 8 that involved universal Windows apps that ...