windows app development

Windows app development on Microsoft’s platform has become a study in fragmentation, and the result is visible in the daily experience of ordinary users: more RAM eaten by “simple” desktop apps, more battery drain, more startup overhead, and more confusion about what a “native” Windows app is...

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a new developer tool that aims to remove much of the friction that has kept many cross‑platform teams from building first‑class Windows apps: the Windows App Development CLI — known in preview as winapp — an open‑source, opinionated command‑line utility that...