Morning Overview on MSN

5 free Windows apps you’ve probably never used, but should

Windows is packed with capable software that most people either ignore or uninstall, even though these tools can make ...
How-To Geek on MSN

4 easy Windows desktop Christmas upgrades you can do in 5 minutes

Remix 3D Winterscapes is another festive Windows theme from Microsoft that boasts 14 3D snowy scenes. Lastly, there's the Snow Sculptures theme, featuring more than a dozen high-definition wallpapers ...
Wired

5 Apps That Are Better on the Desktop Than in Your Browser

Many of us use browser tabs to run our most frequented apps: media players, instant messengers, office suites, and more. But while this often means we can take our favorite services anywhere without ...
Windows Latest

Windows 11’s “almost full-screen” Android apps mirroring now available for everyone via Phone Link app with supported phones

You can now use up to 90% of the desktop screen space when streaming Android apps to Windows 11 using the Microsoft Phone ...
VentureBeat

Microsoft details four new Windows Store app types: Web, desktop, Android, and iOS

At Build 2015 today, Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s executive vice president of operating systems, announced four new ways to get apps into the Windows Store. Developers can reuse their Web code, Windows ...
Computerworld

5 wizardly ways to integrate web apps with Windows

While Windows is a powerful operating system for productivity, so much of what we do with work these days revolves around the web. Whatever your browser of choice — Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, or ...
PC World

Microsoft App-V 5.0 takes virtualization to the next level

The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is a suite of tools available to Microsoft Software Assurance customers that enables IT admins to manage Microsoft environments more effectively.
Wired

How to Turn Your Favorite Web Apps Into Desktop Apps

As you may have noticed, we do most of our computing through web browsers now. Websites and web apps can take care of everything from watching movies to building spreadsheets to checking emails. If ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Choosing the Right UI Framework for Native Windows Applications

What tech should a .NET coder use for a new Windows desktop app when presented with a dizzying array of options that include .NET MAUI, WinUI, WinForms, WPF, UWP, Blazor and so on? We've investigated ...
Computerworld

Microsoft name games continue as ‘universal apps’ become ‘Windows apps’

Microsoft has again changed the lexicon it wants others to use to describe the apps that run on Windows. In a presentation last week at WinHEC, Don Box, a Microsoft distinguished engineer, spelled out ...
TechCrunch

Facebook Messenger’s desktop app is no more

RIP to Facebook Messenger’s desktop app. The native app for Mac and Windows is no longer available to users as of today, December 15, 2025, and existing users are being directed to the Facebook ...