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.

Open Task Manager on your Windows PC right now and chances are you'll see apps like Discord, Slack, or Teams sitting at the top of the memory list, even if they're not active. It's not a bug in their ...

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 ...

Microsoft has published an article on Github detailing its plans to open source the Windows App SDK. Beth Pan, a software engineer on the Windows App SDK team at Microsoft, announced the plans in a ...

Microsoft’s Build 2026 Windows updates add developer setup tools, local AI models, Linux workflows, and agent security controls. Windows is getting a major developer-focused upgrade as Microsoft ...

Microsoft has been rethinking its commitment to Windows for a while now, with Insider builds of the operating system showing a swing away from web-based user experiences and back to native code. That ...

OpenAI is expanding its AI development ecosystem with the official release of the OpenAI Codex app for Microsoft Windows. After introducing major upgrades earlier this year, including multi-agent ...

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 ...

An early Arm64 dev build is available for testers, and Discord has confirmed it will support Windows on Arm soon. An early Arm64 dev build is available for testers, and Discord has confirmed it will ...

Microsoft used Build 2026 to position Windows as a platform for building and running AI agents, not just adding AI features to Windows apps. New and preview technologies include Windows Development ...

First look: Microsoft plans to build 100% native apps for Windows 11 and launch an initiative centered on a new team focused on native experiences instead of web-based wrappers. The company has also ...