Is Spotify for Xbox a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app? You bet, and today we explain what exactly makes a UWP app UWP. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps can be accessed across all compatible Windows devices. In this post, we’ll show you how to create a desktop shortcut for UWP apps on Windows 11/10.

Google's popular cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit is out in a v2.2 update that furthers support for creating Universal Windows Platform (UWP) desktop applications. Part of Flutter's appeal is its ...

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Gears of War 4. Forza Horizon 3. Halo Wars 2. State of Decay 2. All these and more games announced by Microsoft during E3 on Monday are part of the Xbox Play Anywhere program. What that means is ...

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A security researcher from Norway has discovered a new trick that can allow malware to persist on infected systems after reboots. In infosec circles, the term for this is "persistence" and refers to a ...

A video game piracy group by the name of CODEX claims it has successfully breached the 5 layers of protection that come with games published on the Microsoft Store on Windows 10. The group lists these ...

Last month, Microsoft confirmed it could not fix a bug breaking different parts of its desktop operating system. According to the company, the problem could result in the Start menu, Windows Search, ...

Is Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform a stepping stone to more modern Windows 10 apps or recognition that traditional PC applications are the foundation of Windows? Windows 10 (like Windows 8 ...

A bug in Windows 10 allowed UWP apps (Universal Windows Platform) to have access to the entire file system in Windows without permission from the user. This could have allowed a malicious app to ...