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

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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 ...

The new Window Controls Overlay gives PWAs (almost) full access to the title bar The new Window Controls Overlay gives PWAs (almost) full access to the title bar is a senior reviewer covering laptops ...

The Windows on Arm ecosystem is almost perfectly usable for my day-to-day, except for one app I can't go without.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...