TL;DR: Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Project Helix will support both Xbox and PC games, making the Xbox app on PC's introduction of third-party game support for easier access a sign of things to come.

Legendary programmer and former Oculus CTO John Carmack doesn’t think Meta’s developer incentive structure is healthy for the Horizon Store ecosystem, calling it “wasteful churn.” While Carmack ...

OpenAI Launches Codex Desktop App for Windows, Bringing AI Coding Agents to PC Developers Your email has been sent OpenAI is officially bringing its Codex app to Windows, giving PC users the same ...

Microsoft is releasing the public preview of winapp, the new Windows app development CLI that will be useful to developers building Windows apps. Microsoft is making it easier for developers to build ...

In the name of convenience, many apps these days are designed to be cross-platform. They can run on both mobile and desktop, so you can readily switch between devices without starting from scratch. It ...

Microsoft PC Manager replaces multiple Windows tools with one free, official console. It boosts performance, cleans storage, manages apps, handles security, and offers handy utilities, all without ...

Windows has access to a vast selection of free, paid, open-source, and proprietary applications. While you can find many of these in the bundled Microsoft Store, others are scattered across the ...

In a job like this, you spend more time than most setting up Windows 11 devices, and these are the first apps I have to install. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Following its launch earlier this month, the Google app for Windows is now prompting users to uninstall and reinstall the app to get continued updates. The Google app for Windows is currently in Labs ...

Did you know that you can play Roblox with a VR headset? It's not a widely known feature, as many households don't have a virtual reality device readily available. The first VR headsets required a ...

Google has introduced a new experimental search app for Windows. You can press Alt + Space to bring up the new Google app for Windows to search your computer, Google ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. In the decades that I've been using Linux, I have not needed a single Windows app because Linux has all the software I require. However, I ...