weather app

Windows 11 ships with a crowd of first‑party apps that many users never open — and in 2024–2025 Microsoft itself has begun pruning that list, retiring or de‑prioritizing several built‑ins while leaving others as optional annoyances you can safely remove to reclaim space and clarity. Background...

There’s something uniquely comedic, and mildly tragic, about how an operating system as venerable as Windows—framework of Fortune 500s, playfield of global gamers, and home to that guy with 137 browser tabs open—doesn’t really come with a weather app. Not the way your iPhone or MacBook lovingly...

When it comes to discovering the best new apps—whether it’s a weather forecaster, a note-taking companion, or an immersive game—our expectations for intelligence and relevance are sky high. In a recent exploration, three AI-powered chatbots—ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot—were put to the test to...

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...

On both of my Windows 8.1 systems, the MSN Weather app has decided it does not want to open correctly. The live tile works and the App appears to open, but the circling dots never stop. Possibly it is trying to get info from some source and is unable to do so. I have uninstalled and...

Maybe I am mistaken, but I don't remember having to allow the App to use my location or be signed into a Microsoft account for the Weather App to remember the location you enter. I can't seem to get it to remember my City now, could that be subtle coercion to get everyone to run on the...

I have not had much time with this build, but it is nice to see some of the normal icons coming back, like the Trash bin. They have changed the look of the Weather App but it doesn't look as polished as the Windows 8 one. They have moved the power button and some folks don't like the new...

Modern UI can be a challenging transformation for Windows 8 users. Windows customers familiar with the desktop may find the prospect of the Modern UI software useful in this scenario. This demonstration shows how the ModernMix software from Stardock allows you to simply run Modern UI (Start...

Hello i have windows 8 pro purchased yesterday, all fine! But if i go to twitter.com in chrome browser or internet explorer and i try write a tweet with geo tagging, is impossible...auto geo tagging is not available shows me error... Don't detect my position automatic...:( in windows 7 in any...

I have been playing with some of the apps, while they are still working, and noticed some things that may or may not been discussed. OK, you can open an app and it will go full screen. So it is obviously open. You can go to the desktop, or another app and the previous app will remain open...