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- Free developer registration for individual developers on Microsoft Store
by Chetna Das on September 10, 2025 at 5:00 pmWe’re excited to share that individual developers can now publish apps to the Microsoft Store without paying any onboarding fees — and this new experience is now globally available in nearly 200 markets worldwide. Developers will no longer need a The post Free developer registration for individual developers on Microsoft Store appeared first on Windows Developer Blog.
- PowerToys Command Palette utility
by Steve Clarke, Editor on August 20, 2025 at 4:27 pmThe post PowerToys Command Palette utility appeared first on Windows Developer Blog.
- Available today: gpt-oss-20B Model on Windows with GPU Acceleration – further pushing the boundaries on the edgeby Windows Developer Blog Team on August 5, 2025 at 11:40 pm
With OpenAI’s release of gpt-oss models today, we are thrilled to bring GPU optimized gpt-oss-20B model variants to Windows devices. This milestone brings powerful, open-source reasoning models to Windows developers, with support for local inferen The post Available today: gpt-oss-20B Model on Windows with GPU Acceleration – further pushing the boundaries on the edge appeared first on Windows Developer Blog.
- Phi Silica task specialization using LoRA in Microsoft Learning Zone: A technical deep dive
by Shay Ben-Elazar on July 31, 2025 at 4:00 pmAt Build 2025, we announced support for LoRA (low-rank-adaptation) finetuning The post Phi Silica task specialization using LoRA in Microsoft Learning Zone: A technical deep dive appeared first on Windows Developer Blog.
- Windowing overview for WinUI and Windows App SDKby Steve Clarke, Editor on July 23, 2025 at 4:31 pm
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- Leveling up your Microsoft Store on Windows experience
by Giorgio Sardo on June 5, 2025 at 4:00 pmThe Microsoft Store on Windows is used by over 250 million users each month – and we take the responsibility we have to you, our customers, seriously. We use the feedback you send to ensure we’re focusing on the most important things our customer The post Leveling up your Microsoft Store on Windows experience appeared first on Windows Developer Blog.
- Enhance your application security with administrator protection
by Nilanjana Ganguly on May 19, 2025 at 4:30 pmIntroduction Administrator protection is a new Windows 11 platform security feature that aims to protect the admin users on the device while still allowing them to perform the necessary functions which may require use of admin level permissi The post Enhance your application security with administrator protection appeared first on Windows Developer Blog.
- The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by Pierre Boulay on May 19, 2025 at 4:00 pmToday we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo: The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source appeared first on Windows Developer Blog.
- Introducing Windows ML: The future of machine learning development on Windows
by Tucker Burns on May 19, 2025 at 4:00 pmMachine learning is at the forefront of technological innovation, enabling transformative user experiences. With the advances in client silicon and model miniaturization, new scenarios are feasible to run completely locally. To support developers sh The post Introducing Windows ML: The future of machine learning development on Windows appeared first on Windows Developer Blog.
- Accelerating AI development with Windows-based AI workstationsby Steve Clarke, Editor on May 19, 2025 at 4:00 pm
Today, we announced powerful capabilities for AI development with Windows AI Foundry, featuring components like Windows ML The post Accelerating AI development with Windows-based AI workstations appeared first on Windows Developer Blog.
