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Microsoft has begun chopping at the roots of the UWP apps that populate the Microsoft Store, as it quietly announced plans to stop monetizing them using its own ad platform. That’s opened the door for ...

Do you know that you can only have 260 characters in a path on Windows 11/10? If you are having issues with this limitation and searching for a way to enable Win32 Long Paths, this is the guide for ...

In the last couple of years a number of new bootkits have appeared in the wild targeting the Microsoft Windows platform. Among the most prominent examples are TDL4, Olmasco and Rovnix. These each ...

' Win32.run ' has been released, which runs Windows XP on a browser. All files are processed on the client side, i.e., within the user's browser, and no file upload or server-side processing is ...

Microsoft Store will now manage updates for Win32 apps Developers will have to opt-in to allow Microsoft Store to update apps It will be free to publish new apps on Microsoft's platforms starting in ...

What to do if you have an invalid Win32 application? When you launch an executable file, Windows displays a message like: Application name is not a valid Win32 application .exe is a file execution ...

Ten years ago around this very time—April through June 2008—our intrepid Microsoft guru Peter Bright evidently had an identity crisis. Could this lifelong PC user ...

If this is true, it opens up a Pandora’s box of problems alongside the benefits. What is the future of Microsoft’s Xbox consoles? A lot of PlayStation fans are eager to discourse about how the console ...