Microsoft’s new winapp CLI simplifies Windows app development with one-command setup, faster testing, and easier packaging. Microsoft is trying to make Windows app development feel a lot less painful.

Microsoft yesterday took another stab at boosting interest in creating apps for Windows 8 with an awards program that will hand out Xbox games and other prizes to amateur programmers. Dubbed “App ...

In late March, the first builds of Windows 8.1 leaked to the Web. At about the same time, the number of Windows 8 apps reversed several months of slowing growth and charted four straight months of app ...

Enterprise developers are seeing demand for Windows 8 line of business apps on mobile devices. However, the applications–while impressive–are speeding along mostly in vertical markets for very ...