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Windows App Studio Beta adds 9 languages and Windows Phone 8.1 sideloading
Since launching 14 months ago the response to Windows App Studio Beta has been nothing short of incredible. From small business owners to skilled developers learning the basics of our platform, our...
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Microsoft Advertising releases enhancements to help promote your apps
Promoting your apps through ads is one of the most effective ways to drive discoverability and downloads. Since April, Windows Phone developers have been able to purchase ads to promote their apps...
View ArticleUpdates to the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store policies
This week we released updated app certification policies on Dev Center for Windows Phone apps and Windows Store apps and accompanying updates to the Application Developer Agreement. This update...
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Apache Cordova and WinJS
This post was written by Josh Rennert, Program Manager, Windows Ecosystem & Frameworks team Apache Cordova enables developers to build native applications by using the most common web programming...
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EventDay leverages Microsoft Azure to streamline conferences for organizers...
Successful conferences require immense planning and organization; EventDay, a set of powerful mobile apps, empowers conference organizers to maintain control of the planned program, and operate...
View ArticleInside Windows Platform: Common App Developer Design Considerations
Dave Crawford, an experienced graphic design professional, has spent the last several years driving high quality design into some of the most popular Windows apps. In this episode of Inside Windows...
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Announcing Windows ad mediation – maximize your Windows Phone app ad revenue
In-app advertising represents about one third of all Store revenue generated by developers, second only to the fast-growing in-app purchase monetization model. We’re continually looking for ways to...
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How to maximize the impact of Windows ad mediation for Windows Phone
As Todd announced earlier, Windows Store today launched a new ad mediation solution designed to help Windows Phone developers who use in-app advertising to increase their fill rates and revenue. In...
View ArticleInside Windows Platform: Maximize ad revenue with Windows Ad Mediator Service...
As announced last week, the Windows Ad Mediator Service and Control is now available, designed to help developers greatly improve advertising revenue. I sat down with Bernardo Zamora, Director of...
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Up to $100 million available to purchase Windows apps, prepare your apps now...
Traditionally, the holiday season and year-end bring new devices and a significant increase in app downloads. During the holiday period of 2013, Windows Store saw 2.4x more revenue than the Jan-Nov...
View ArticleAllJoyn in Windows 10
Starting today, makers and software developers who have engaged in our Windows Insider program will get their first chance to develop applications that use AllJoyn capability in Windows 10 by...
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Passionate Windows developer, Rudy Huyn, shares how he obtained 15 million...
French developer Rudy Huyn is a passionate Microsoft MVP whose apps have been downloaded over 15 million times. He has successfully monetized his apps by engaging and communicating directly with his...
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Developer Matthew Carlson’s ‘touchable’ email app relies on Windows 8.1;...
TouchMail leverages gestures, visuals, and the power of touch in its innovative email app that makes it possible to find and organize email faster than ever before. Co-founder and CEO Matthew Carlson...
View ArticleInside Windows Platform – Inside Microsoft OCR Libraries
In this episode of Inside Windows Platform, we talked with Ivan Stojiljkovic, the Dev Lead of the OCR team at Microsoft. OCR is acompelling developer scenario which can empower all sorts of useful...
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Windows App Studio adds Twitter and Instagram OAuth integration
More than 2.2 million users around the world have used Windows App Studio beta to quickly build apps for any phone, tablet, or PC running Windows 8.1. Today App Studio added the much-anticipated...
View ArticleMonetize your Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 apps with the Smaato SDK
Windows partner Smaato, a global mobile advertising monetization platform for Windows app developers, recently announced the availability of its SDK that now supports XAML apps for Windows Phone 8.1...
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Matt Fara’s Motive is social, innovative, and built on Windows
Matt Fara is more than just a fan of all things Microsoft; as a developer of Windows apps for the past five years, he walks the talk. Fara is a Toronto-based enterprise developer by day who recently...
View ArticleGaming and Open Source for your Windows Phone and Windows Apps
This post was written by Corey Goff, Program Manager II on the Dev Platform team here at Microsoft. Middleware enables game developers to build on top of a base layer of code by abstracting pieces (or...
View ArticleJethro Tull superfan builds app with Windows App Studio
More than 50,000 apps have been published using Windows App Studio Beta. We’ve seen a number of musicians, artists, and bands who build apps to connect with their fans and share their craft with a...
View ArticleUse free “house ads” to promote your Windows apps
Today Microsoft Advertising released ‘house ads,’ a new capability that enables developers that have two or more Windows or Windows Phone apps in the Store, to promote one of the apps in the other...
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