"Windows Apps" news, interviews, and features

News about Windows Apps

• Office for Windows 10 will require Office 365 subscription on PCs, larger tablets

  "There are a few changes to the apps coming up that are part of helping them get ready for their release with Windows 10"

• It's alive! Microsoft to let Live Writer live on as open source

  Microsoft will breathe new life into Windows Live Writer by open sourcing the eight-year-old blog-publishing tool.

• Microsoft retreats from Metro, to retire Skype app next month

  Microsoft plans to retire the Modern app for Skype in less than four weeks, abandoning it for the more traditional desktop version.

• Microsoft to add real-time translation to Windows' Skype desktop app by summer's end

• Microsoft expands Office 2016 for Windows public preview to consumers, more business workers

  Microsoft today launched a broader-based public preview of Office 2016 for Windows, expanding on the March sneak peek.

• Office 2016 for Windows preview not open to all O365 biz subscribers

  Microsoft has limited the Office 2016 for Windows preview to customers with subscriptions to the enterprise-grade plans ProPlus, E3 and E4.

Features about Windows Apps

• The more customers Microsoft adds to Office 365, the less it makes from each subscriber

  The more consumers that Microsoft puts on its Office 365 subscription rolls, the less it makes from each customer.

• Microsoft's alt-OS strategy strikes loyalists as class warfare

  Windows users may feel like second-class citizens as Microsoft continues to push its products and services onto alternate platforms.