Windows 10: Opportunity for Developer to make money

DRBernardG · Mar 14, 2023

Here’s a free idea for any developer out there Write an appl that completely uninstalls the spotlight, clears all the caches and garbage, and reinstall it. That would definitely sell for a few dollars on the Microsoft Store

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Brink · Mar 14, 2023

Windows 10 Anniversary SDK bringing opportunities to developers

Hello from Build 2016! I just had an opportunity to participate in today’s keynote with Satya Nadella and Terry Myerson where we celebrated the progress we have made with Windows 10, gave a preview of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, and talked about how we are continuing to invest in the Windows Platform to make it home for all developers. Terry’s blog summarizes many of today’s announcements, but in this post I want to share a few of the highlights for developers.

Throughout the year, I have heard from many of you, both in person and via our various feedback channels, and you have asked us for more. We know that every innovation with Windows is only as powerful as the ecosystem that rallies around it, so I want to cover today’s most important Build announcements and what they mean for our development community.

The Windows 10 Anniversary SDK

Today we are taking the first step with the announcement of the preview of the Windows 10 Anniversary SDK. It contains thousands of new features and APIs that are the direct result of your feedback.
Here are just a few of the significant improvements that we are excited about but didn’t have time to cover in the keynote:

Connected Devices: We are bringing new ways to connect to, communicate with, and manage multiple devices and apps. This technology enables Cortana extensibility and the new Action Center in the Cloud, and it’s being introduced today.

Background execution: We are bringing the ability to run your application in the background without requiring two separate processes. Along with extended execution and opportunistic tasks, writing applications that run when they need to will become simpler and more powerful.

App Extensions: UWP now supports app extensibility allowing you to build an ecosystem based on your application. Microsoft Edge uses this technology for its own extensions.

Action Center in the Cloud: Enables your app to engage with users on all their devices. You can now dismiss notifications on one device and they will be dismissed everywhere.

Windows Store & Dev Center: Significate new tools include user roles in Dev Center, app flighting, improved analytics, an analytics API that allows you to grab your data and use it outside of the dashboard, user segmentation and targeting, A/B testing, app subscriptions, advertising improvements, and more.

Here at Build, we will talk about these and much more during more than one hundred technical sessions, all of which will be available for you to view on Channel 9 over the next several days.

Pioneers wanted: NUI Innovations coming to UWP

With the Universal Windows Platform, we have been creating new ways of interacting with our devices that go beyond touch and mouse to include vision, writing, speech, and more. It’s more than just the inputs and outputs; it’s about creating experiences that transcend a single device and enabling developers to orchestrate experiences across devices.

At today’s keynote we gave a detailed overview of some of the new innovations that are coming to Windows 10 in the Anniversary Update SDK:

Windows Ink APIs: Together we will unlock new natural ways of interacting with our apps with Windows Ink. Just two lines of code enable you to bring the “Hello World” of Windows Ink into your apps through the InkCanvas and new InkToolbar controls. One level down, the InkPresenter provides a powerful and flexible way to extend the InkToolbar and to create customize ink experiences. In all cases, the platform provides beautiful low-latency ink rendering, handwriting recognition, and ink data management.

Windows Hello: You can already use Windows Hello and biometric authentication to make your apps easier to access and more secure with Windows Passport. If you are web developer, you can now bring that same Windows Hello experience to your websites with JavaScript APIs in Microsoft Edge.

Cortana APIs: Nearly 1,000 apps are already using voice commands with Cortana. Now Cortana allows you to go further and integrate proactive actions with your apps. As a developer, you can drive increased user engagement by registering actions with Cortana that she will use to connect users to your apps at just the right time. Check out the new Cortana portal where you can request access to the beta.

Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition begins shipping: The Windows Holographic SDK and emulator are now available for download and Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition is starting to ship to developers. These will enable you to create holographic apps using UWP. Our documentation and forums are up and running. We’re also happy to share a number of open source projects, HoloToolkit, HoloToolkit-Unity, and Galaxy Explorer, which will accelerate your development of holographic apps, and give you an opportunity to contribute back to help others building on the platform. Developers can now bring existing UWP apps to HoloLens where they will work on 2D surfaces within the virtual world.

Windows is pioneering a change in how people will use technology: will you join?

Listening to your needs, embracing tools for multi-platform development on Windows.

We want Windows to be the best development environment regardless of the technologies you use or the platforms you target. We made cross-device a reality at the core of the Universal Windows Platform, and we are excited to offer more:

Converting Desktop Apps (Project Centennial): We are shipping a new desktop app converter which will enable your Win32 and .NET apps to get access to UWP and the Windows Store. With the new installer technology, your app can cleanly install, uninstall, and update, and also get full access to UWP APIs including Live Tiles, Cortana, notifications, and more.

Bash is coming to Windows: For users of popular command-line tools, Windows 10 now has great support for Bash running on Ubuntu as part of our partnership with Canonical, and growing support for the universe of open-source command-line tools. Developers will be able to download the Bash shell from the Windows Store.

Xamarin: will make it easy to share code across platforms while delivering native experiences for each. Also, our open source Windows Bridge for iOS enables iOS developers to bring Objective-C code into Visual Studio, and compile it into a UWP app.

Retail Dev Kit Unlock for Xbox One: Today we are releasing the Retail Dev Kit Unlock for Xbox One which enables any Xbox One to be a developer kit with Xbox Dev Mode. Now anyone can develop UWP apps and deploy them to an Xbox One. Your apps can be tailored for the larger viewing distance and screen size of the living room and for Game Controller input, and you can test these optimizations on your own Xbox.

You asked us to help you in be more productive, and we listened. We will continue to invest in making Windows home for developers, regardless of which platform you build for.

Stay tuned to this blog over the course of the next week to view a series of in-depth posts that will go into details of some of the topics that I discussed here (Cortana, Windows Ink, Windows Store & Dev Center, Bash, and more).

Get involved.

What a difference a year makes. Last year at Build we were showing what would be possible in Windows 10, and today we celebrate more than 270 million devices on the platform!

Build is just the next step in this journey, but now is the time to get involved. Start developing on the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. To do so, install the latest Windows 10 for Insiders, update to Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, and then install the Windows 10 Anniversary SDK Preview Build 14295.

I cannot wait to celebrate our shared success next year at Build 2017.

– Kevin
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Brink · Mar 14, 2023

An Update on the Developer Opportunity and Windows 10

At Build last year, we unveiled our Bridges strategy and our commitment to provide developers with tools to accelerate bringing their apps to Windows 10 devices. Our goal is to make it easy for developers of all sizes to bring existing code to the one billion devices we expect to see running Windows 10 in the next few years. The tools we announced were designed to help developers with existing code bases of HTML/JavaScript, .NET and Win32, Java/C+ + and Objective-C bring their code to Windows, and provide a way to integrate with Universal Windows Platform capabilities.

Enabling developers to bring and re-use some of their existing code to Windows 10 is part of our longer-term vision for developers, where we want to make Windows the best development platform regardless of technologies used. Yesterday, we reached another milestone on this journey via our agreement to acquire Xamarin. UWP developers can not only reach all Windows 10 devices, but with Xamarin, they can now use a large percentage of their C# code to deliver a fully native mobile app experience for iOS and Android. Xamarin’s approach enables developers to take advantage of the productivity and power of .NET to develop mobile apps, and to use C# to write to the full set of native APIs and mobile capabilities provided by each platform.

We’re excited to have Xamarin join Microsoft and the opportunities it will offer developers – making it easy to share common app code across Windows, iOS, and Android apps while still delivering fully-native experiences for each of the platforms.

Progress on the bridges

In addition to welcoming Xamarin, we also wanted to provide an update on the Windows 10 Bridges:

The Web Bridge (Hosted Web Apps) helps bring HTML and JavaScript web-based apps to the Windows Store and takes advantage of the rich capabilities of the Windows platform, such as Live Tiles, Cortana integration, in-app purchase capabilities and more. This shipped as part of the standard Windows 10 SDK in July and we’ve already seen adoption from companies such as Shazam and Yahoo.

Project “Centennial” helps bring existing Win32 and .NET-based apps to the Windows Store and is in testing with a set of developers now. We’ll have an early iteration of the tools soon, and then we’ll expand the program and support a broader range of developers.

The Windows Bridge for iOS (project “Islandwood”), enables developers to bring Objective-C iOS apps to the Windows Store, was released to GitHub as an open source project in August and we’ve been releasing updates to it frequently. Just last week, we released an update which included the first ARM32 preview compiler drop.

We also announced the Windows Bridge for Android (project “Astoria”) at Build last year, and some of you have asked about its status. We received a lot of feedback that having two Bridge technologies to bring code from mobile operating systems to Windows was unnecessary, and the choice between them could be confusing. We have carefully considered this feedback and decided that we would focus our efforts on the Windows Bridge for iOS and make it the single Bridge option for bringing mobile code to all Windows 10 devices, including Xbox and PCs. For those developers who spent time investigating the Android Bridge, we strongly encourage you to take a look at the iOS Bridge and Xamarin as great solutions.

The philosophy behind the Bridges has always been to make it as easy as possible for you to bring existing code to Windows, and our investments in the iOS Bridge will make this straightforward. We initially focused on API coverage for game developers, but we are expanding our API coverage for all app types by adding support for additional frameworks, etc. We’re aiming for significant development cost savings for the majority of ‘typical’ apps – keep an eye on the project on GitHub, and of course we welcome direct contributions, helping us all out!

At Build this year, we’ll go into more detail on the Bridges, Xamarin, our Universal Windows Platform and much more.

Hope to see you there!
Kevin
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Source: An Update on the Developer Opportunity and Windows 10 | Building Apps for Windows

Brink · Mar 14, 2023

Creating Developer Opportunity with Windows Store in 2015

As we all turn our attention to the year ahead I thought I’d take this opportunity to say thank you and share some insight into our plans for building on a very successful 2014. We began the year with a commitment to create opportunities for developers with Windows Store. We made good progress by both attracting over 30% more active users and by exceeding a 110% year-over-year increase in app downloads and gross sales. In addition the ecosystem has grown, with an 80% increase in registered developers and 60% increase in app selection year-over-year.

Providing a platform where developers can be successful remains our number one goal as we look to 2015. We’ll continue working to generate opportunity by delivering a developer-friendly platform that spans devices and geographies, while reducing the amount of time and effort it takes to move from ideas to installs.

There is tremendous excitement building for Windows 10 as we continue to create a more unified platform for targeting the full range of devices that people rely on every day. In the months ahead we’ll have more to share on the developer capabilities that Windows 10 will bring. In the meantime you’ll find that we remain focused on five key areas to help you be successful today and get on track to take advantage of Windows 10, including:

Expanded payment options in emerging markets with carrier billing
We exit 2014 with new carrier billing connections in the high growth markets of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Mexico and Vietnam for a total of 81 connections across 46 markets. You can expect the pace of new connections to continue, as we see an average transaction volume increase of 8x in emerging markets when carrier billing is enabled. You will also see us work with carriers to more aggressively promote this purchase options to their subscriber base. Carrier billing rounds out a range of payment choices that includes credit cards, Alipay, PayPal and – new this year – app gifting with digital gift cards (available in Canada, France, Germany, the UK and the US) and bitcoin (US only).

Enhanced monetization options
In-app purchase and in-app advertising currently account for 35% and 58% of Windows Store revenue respectively. In 2014, many developers redesigned their app and game experiences to take advantage of in-app purchase and are seeing positive results both in terms of higher usage and overall monetization – with price points from $0.99 to $99.99 (USD). We are increasing our focus on in-app advertising to help improve fill rates and grow developer revenue. The recent release of Windows ad mediation for Windows Phone developers is one example, improving fill rates to over 95% and increasing revenue up to 200%. We plan to further expand this capability in the coming year.

Increased options for app discovery
In the past few months we’ve updated the Windows Store UI, opened up Windows Store merchandising slots 55x, enhanced visibility for Collections and added a Deals Hub. We also increased investments in global and local advertising and promotion from Microsoft as well as in collaboration with our device maker and retail partners. We’ll also continue to invest in maintaining a high-quality user experience in 2015.

Making our platform accessible to all skill levels
Windows App Studio Beta enabled those with great ideas but no development experience to bring their ideas to life. We will continue to enhance this toolset in 2015, integrating new capabilities like the recent addition of TouchDevelop.

Getting more done in fewer steps
This year we unified and simplified Windows Dev Center registration to a single lifetime registration accompanied by a unified set of policies. We added a new benefits program to provide resources and guidance and we also took the first step to add new capabilities such as the ability to respond to user reviews. We have much more work to do to simplify and unify the experience and you can expect the evolution to continue over the coming months.

If you haven’t done so already, I’d like to encourage you to transition to developing universal Windows apps. Over 90% of the Windows app downloads and more than 65% of Windows Phone app downloads are coming from devices running 8.1. Considering this adoption rate and the platform enhancements of Windows and Windows Phone 8.1, the time is right to update older apps (especially Windows Phone 7 apps that account for less than 5% of downloads). Moving to universal Windows apps expands your opportunity by reaching more devices – phone, tablet and PC – while also getting your apps ready for Windows 10.

I’m excited by the opportunities the new year presents – happy New Year to all of you!
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