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 ...

When Satya Nadella took over as Microsoft's CEO, he positioned Microsoft as a mobile- and cloud-focused company. Since then, Microsoft has made significant gains in the cloud industry, with Azure one ...

What tech should a .NET coder use for a new Windows desktop app when presented with a dizzying array of options that include .NET MAUI, WinUI, WinForms, WPF, UWP, Blazor and so on? We've investigated ...

Microsoft Corp. said today it’s advancing the local artificial intelligence development capabilities of Windows, as part of an effort to help developers build and experiment and reach new users with ...

The Windows third-party developer ecosystem, carefully cultivated by Microsoft, has long been one of the most vibrant communities of its kind, adding value and innovation to the core Windows platform.

Developers doing Windows apps have a confusing arsenal of tools and frameworks to work with, but Microsoft is simplifying things a bit with a new Visual Studio workload that highlights the company's ...

Running containers on Windows has never been as easy as it should be. While there are versions of Docker Desktop and Podman that work with both the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Hyper-V, I’ve ...

I am asking here because I don't really know where else to ask. So, what is the future of windows application development? I am not talking about web services and web applications, but stand-alone ...

Microsoft has announced the availability of a public preview of winapp — or the Windows App Development CLI to give it its full title. The open source tool is a single command-line interface for ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Project Zenith brings a ready-to-code Windows experience to developer PCs, with local AI support and preconfigured tools.