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Microsoft’s app store changes crank up the Apple pressure Tom Warren Microsoft shook up the PC gaming industry this week with the announcement that it was cutting the fee it takes from game sales on the Windows store. On the surface, it’s a welcome move, with Microsoft matching the 12 percent cut that Epic Games takes, and putting more pressure on Valve, which still takes a 30 percent cut on most Steam purchases. But the cut is also a tactical move: Microsoft wants to help pressure Apple, and this week’s changes could play a role in the bigger app store battles kicking o...

BlazorWebView arrives on desktop applications. Too convoluted? Tim Anderson Tue 13 Apr 2021 // 08:30 UTC Share Copy Microsoft has shipped preview 3 of its forthcoming .NET 6 framework with a bunch of updates including the addition of Windows desktop to its Multi-platform App UI (MAUI). As the first long-term support version of the supposedly unified framework, .NET 6.0 is expected to be completed in November. Like .NET 5.0, it is no longer designated .NET Core, though it remains distinct from the Windows-only .NET Framework, which is still supported but will not be fur...

If you thought that all developers had moved on from Windows 10 Mobile, think again. There's a UWP Pinterest app that's still receiving updates in 2021.

| Microsoft inches closer to unified Windows SDK The latest preview bits of Microsoft’s Project Reunion for building Windows 10 desktop applications are ready for testing and even for production. Microsoft Although the 0.5 release has production support for a subset of its planned APIs and just one of its intended development targets, Microsoft is encouraging developers to get started porting apps to the new platform. Project Reunion won’t be the only way to get access to Windows APIs; the Windows SDK isn’t going away and will continue to evolve with Windows. Rath...

Microsoft has refactored numerous packages in order to decouple dependencies when only a small number of components are being utilized in the app. In most scenarios, this has resulted in an 80-90% decrease in footprint size of the application. Most of these changes affect the Animations and Controls packages, so it is advisable that developers refer to Microsoft's documentation here in order to identify any breaking changes to their apps. Windows Community Toolkit v7.0 also comes with a new MVVM library built on the foundations of platform-agnosticism, modularity, flexibility, and performance...