Last week, I wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian expressing concern that Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs comprised a first step toward locking down the currently open ...

Earlier in the series, we discussed Microsoft’s (MSFT) UWP (Universal Windows Platform) technology and how it could strengthen Microsoft’s role in the gaming and mobile space. With UWP, Microsoft is ...

Took me ages just to get the Demo to download. Then once I got it, it had some massive memory leak that would consume every byte of system and video memory within 30 seconds (16GB of system, RX480 ...

Microsoft is making progress toward its goal of closing the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and Win32 divide. Next week, timed with Microsoft's Ignite conference, the company is planning to release ...

One of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's biggest initiatives is also his riskiest. The Universal Windows Platform, or UWP, is a new way for Microsoft developers to build and sell their Windows apps across ...

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Tim Sweeney, the co-founder of Gears of War maker Epic Games, has launched a blistering attack on Microsoft over its Universal Windows Platform (UWP) initiative. In an op-ed he penned for The Guardian ...

Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney wrote an opinion piece in The Guardian saying that Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform (UWP)—the common development platform that covers Windows, Windows Mobile, HoloLens, ...

Microsoft has updated Windows 10 to fix two key issues, making its Universal Windows Platform (UWP) games much more appealing to gaming enthusiasts. In a blog post in which it asserts that "Windows 10 ...