The steady drumbeat of change continues across Microsoft’s Windows ecosystem, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the company’s accelerating drive to modernize, streamline, and secure the operating system. Over the past several years, Windows enthusiasts have seen familiar features quietly...
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Pour yourself a tall mug of nostalgia and get ready to bid adieu to a piece of Windows history—Microsoft is sweeping away the cobwebs in its next round of updates, and the victim is none other than the Windows Maps app. That's right, after quietly dutiful service since its debut back in November...
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Another one bites the dust at Redmond, with Microsoft announcing its soon-to-be fond farewell to the Windows Maps app: a cartographic casualty that, depending on whom you ask, conjures either a moment of nostalgia or a blank stare of "Wait, we had a Maps app?" For seasoned Windows watchers and...
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Overview of the Deprecation Announcement
Microsoft has recently announced that the Windows UWP Map Control and Maps platform API will be deprecated starting this month. This strategic move, detailed in an official blog post and widely covered by industry news outlets including Windows Report...
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One of the questions I hear allot is how do you convert your Windows phone 8/8.1 Silverlight app into a Windows 10 UWP app? Is there a simple converter?
No.
But one is the works!
Mobilize.NET, the company that brought us the cool WinForm to Web App product, WebMAP2 have just released a new...
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