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Microsoft today unveiled the Desktop App Converter, which lets developers bring existing Windows applications to the Windows Universal Platform (UWP). The company is hoping to bring the 16 million ...

Native Windows apps used to be fast, efficient, and everywhere. Now, it's all just a website in a Chromium wrapper.

After years of shuffling through various names for its modern app platform, Microsoft is keeping it simple with “Windows Apps.” The name will refer to universal apps that can run across phones, ...

Traditional desktop Windows applications can now be distributed and sold through the Windows Store, with note-taking application Evernote being one of the first to use this new capability. Until now, ...

Game streaming service OnLive will launch a new free app, OnLive Desktop, for iPad on Thursday. "OnLive Desktop is the first app to deliver a no-compromise, media-rich Windows desktop experience to ...

Tablets are great for consuming content, but so far have been lacking in the capability to create it. Whether it’s due to limited hardware capabilities, the touchscreen interface, or software, vendors ...

If you own a Windows RT device, you might be interested to know that there is a way to run ported Windows applications on Microsoft’s new Windows RT devices. When Microsoft created their Windows RT ...

Desktop sized games aren't the only thing Palo Alto's premiere streaming service is pushing to your tablet-- now OnLive is out to stream you an actual desktop, as well. Following up on an old Windows ...

(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY What kind of computer do you expect to have on your desk in eight years? According to IT research company Gartner, it's likely to be based on Microsoft's Windows RT platform, ...