interoperability

For years, Android users have enjoyed the nifty convenience of linking their smartphones to Windows PCs through Microsoft's Phone Link (formerly known as Your Phone). It's been the secret sauce that allows users to check notifications, respond to messages, and even make phone calls right from...

Microsoft Makes iPhone-Windows Cohabitation Easier Than Ever Hold onto your Lightning cables, iPhone lovers—Microsoft just dropped some news that could simplify the life of anyone juggling an iPhone and a Windows 11 PC. Historically, bridging the gap between Apple’s ecosystem and a Windows...

In a move that promises to transform global healthcare systems, M42—a leader in AI-powered healthcare innovation—has announced a groundbreaking partnership with Rhapsody, a prominent digital health enablement platform. This collaboration aims to redefine how healthcare data is integrated...

When technology meets healthcare, it can often feel like a scene straight out of a sci-fi blockbuster. Today’s headline-maker is the strategic alliance between M42, a prominent name in global health innovation, and Rhapsody, a heavyweight digital health platform. The duo has decided to transform...

In a significantly promising move for tech enthusiasts navigating the dual worlds of Windows and Apple, Microsoft has unveiled a new feature aimed at vastly improving the experience of sharing files between Windows PCs and iPhones. This update could spell relief for users entrenched in the...

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), renowned for its staunch stance on regulating dominant market players, is reportedly gearing up to announce a range of "behavioral" remedies targeting the cloud infrastructure sector. The tech community is abuzz with speculation that these...

In a strategic move set to shake up the collaboration landscape, Mio has teamed up with 66degrees, a leading Google Cloud Premier Partner. This partnership aims to enhance cross-platform communication capabilities for users engaged in Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack, providing a...

In a game-changing development for the tech landscape, industry giants Intel and AMD have banded together to combat the expanding influence of Arm processors within the server and PC realm. This partnership has culminated in the formation of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, aimed at...

Windows 11 is about to get even more interconnected. In a recent update to OneDrive, Microsoft is enhancing the cross-platform experience, allowing users to resume tasks started on their Android or iPhone directly on their Windows 11 PCs. This significant update revolves around improving...

In an exciting move towards greater interoperability between devices, Microsoft has announced a new feature for Windows 11 that enables seamless file sharing between your PC and Android devices. Drawing on the functionality seen in Apple's AirDrop, this new capability is being introduced through...

Introduction As the deadline for compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Economic Area (EEA) nears, Microsoft shared an update on their plan to roll out updates to Windows for customers in the EEA. The recent non-security releases, including Windows 10, version 22H2 Build...

Last year, the Compat 2021 effort made tangible progress on improving five of the top pain points for web developers. Microsoft, in collaboration with Google and Igalia, contributed a rewrite of the CSS Grid module in Blink, along with bug fixes for CSS Transforms. Representatives from Apple...

Just last week, the WebDriver specification officially became a W3C Recommendation, defining a standard way for web developers and browser engineers to automate the browser. This is a major step forward for web site and web app testing, as well as cross-browser interoperability initiatives like...

Today’s web developers face more challenges than ever before. New frameworks spring up left and right. The number of devices capable of running the web multiply by the day. And we strive as creators to enable an inclusive and trustworthy world where fundamentals like accessibility, privacy...

In today’s post, we are covering another step you can take on your journey across the Desktop Bridge: specifically migrating business logic to Windows Runtime Components, aka WinRT Components. Previously, Windows only supported calling OS provided WinRT components from Win32 applications. Any...

XAML Standard We are pleased to announce XAML Standard, which is a standards-based effort to unify XAML dialects across XAML based technologies such as UWP and Xamarin.Forms. XAML Standard is a specification that defines a standard XAML vocabulary. With that vocabulary, frameworks that...

Continuing what we started during the “App Dev on Xbox” event, today we are making available yet another app experience – Atmosphere. In this blog post, you will learn how to get started building great 2D and 3D experiences with Unity and XAML, how to open up your app so other app developers can...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of posts from the team that built the 10k Apart contest site, exploring the process of building for interoperability, accessibility, and progressive enhancement in less than 10kB. In the previous post in this series, Stephanie Stimac discussed her...

Today we’re excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing part of the Microsoft Edge WebGL renderer – specifically, the GLSL to HLSL transpiler. We hope that the source code is useful for everybody working on similar WebGL projects, and that this will help performance, correctness and...

At last year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, we introduced the enterprise story for the web on Windows 10. Microsoft Edge is designed from the ground up to provide a modern, interoperable, and secure browsing experience; in addition, Internet Explorer 11 is also a part of Windows 10 to help bring...