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Google updates its cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit Flutter, Google’s cross-platform UI toolkit for building mobile and desktop apps, is getting a small but important update at the company’s I/O conference today. Google also announced that Flutter now powers 200,000 apps in the Play Store alone, including popular apps from companies like WeChat, ByteDance, BMW, Grab and DiDi. Indeed, Google notes that one in eight new apps in the Play Store are now Flutter apps. The launch of Flutter 2.2 follows Google’s rollout of Flutter 2, which first added support for desktop and web apps in March,...

The latest word on the street is that Microsoft’s new Windows 10X operating system has been put on the back burner for now or maybe cancelled completely. A release date was never really announced, but it had been touted for a while as releasing with the Surface Neo dual-screen tablet in the fall of 2020. That obviously never happened and it looks like the Surface Neo isn’t going to happen either. Maybe this is partly due to poor sales of the Surface Duo?  See our review of the Surface Duo. We don’t really know, but we did get to try the Windows 10X beta in a virtual machine for a while...

ExtremeTech Microsoft Reportedly Cancels Window 10X Launch By Ryan Whitwam on May 7, 2021 at 1:13 pm This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft unveiled Windows 10X in late 2019 alongside the Surface Neo and Surface Duo. It was an ambitious event, but so far only the Duo has launched, and it’s starting to look like Microsoft will never get those other two products out the door. According to a report from Petri.com, Microsoft has shelved its slimmed-down Windows 10X operating system. Instead, it will focus on an upcoming re...

Among the findings, WPF remains most-used desktop framework despite years of promotion for UWP Tim Anderson Thu 6 May 2021 // 12:45 UTC Share Copy The Microsoft-sponsored .NET Foundation has released a survey-based "State of .NET" report showing that efforts to broaden the appeal of the technology beyond its own platform have had limited success so far. The .NET Foundation was set up by Microsoft in 2014, around the time that the cross-platform and open-source .NET Core was first announced, the idea being to support the .NET ecosystem. Between November 2020 and March 2...

Source: Windows Central A long time ago, I interviewed former Xbox CVP Mike Ybarra about the future of Xbox, and what Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps could mean for the platform. Jokingly, we discussed getting the UWP version of Microsoft Office onto Xbox, enabling users to potentially turn their consoles into productivity devices. Well, thanks to the new Microsoft Edge, we're almost there (???). There are a few bugs, given that this is pre-release software available in the Xbox Insider Program, but I am typing this article up on my Xbox, with full mouse and keyboard support, using Micr...