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Windows 8.1 Preview

It's here!

With Windows 8.1, you can reach more customers on an unprecedented range of devices, enhance user engagement with new features, and benefit from new revenue opportunities with your app.

Local events

Local events

Meet the Windows Store

Meet the Windows Store

Windows Store apps: a big opportunity

Make more money, on your terms. Discover your opportunity with the reach, flexibility, and transparency of the Windows Store.

What’s new

Develop games

Game programming

Create games that are fun to play on any device.

Resources for iOS developers

Resources for iOS developers

Reimagine your app for Windows 8.

Windows App Certification Kit

Windows App Certification Kit

Test your app before you submit it.

Enterprise LOB app design

Enterprise LOB app design

Design for ease of deployment and use.

Success stories


Box

Windows design principles led to a "fun design process."

Learn how Box turned their app into a natural extension of the file system to serve the fundamental need to create files, share them, and to collaborate.

Slacker Radio

"Windows 8 is an awesome opportunity."

Learn how Slacker Radio used Windows 8 integration across devices to help people take their music everywhere they go.

Ratio Interactive

"Windows 8 gives you the ability to jump into a large market right away."

Learn how Ratio Interactive uses Windows 8 to deliver "more compelling experiences than [they] had elsewhere" and to bring in a client list they are really proud of.

USA Today

"Windows 8 just brings it all."

Learn how USA Today puts content and experience front and center, bringing together words, pictures, and video, and integrating with how users interact with the system.

Windows Store apps dev center