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A New Monetization Opportunity: Application Extensions + Microsoft Affiliate Program Looking for more ways to monetize your app? App developers can boost their revenue through the Microsoft Affiliate Program. As an affiliate you can earn revenue by promoting content in the Windows Store and Microsoft Store, such as apps, games, music and video. Developers who place links and/or banners on their apps directing users to the Windows Store will receive a commission for each online sale driven by that in-app marketing. You may have participated in other affiliate programs where you get a commission when someone buys something that you link to – the Microsoft Affiliate Program works in much the same way, but is more expansive. A New Opportunity As an app developer, this is a golden opportunity to open a new revenue stream for Universal Windows Apps. Not [ more… ]

Real-Time Communications on the Universal Windows Platform with WebRTC and ORTC Readers of this blog interested in Real-Time Communications are probably familiar with Google’s WebRTC project. From the WebRTC site: “WebRTC is a free, open project that provides browsers and mobile applications with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple APIs. The WebRTC components have been optimized to best serve this purpose.” At Microsoft, we’ve seen tremendous support grow for WebRTC over the past five years. One of the most pivotal uses of WebRTC is building native video chat apps, which now reach more than one billion users. Google’s native supported platforms for WebRTC include iOS, Android and traditional Win32 desktop apps. On Windows, Microsoft Edge already supports ORTC APIs and now supports WebRTC 1.0 APIs in Insider Preview builds on Desktop devices. For example, if you need to build a WebRTC app in HTML/JS targeted at desktop browsers [ more… ]

Announcing updates to Windows 10 Mail & Calendar apps We know how important it is you to stay on top of your emails and manage your time well. On the Windows 10 Mail & Calendar team, we’re working hard to come up with new ways to make this possible. Along with architectural improvements that enable enhanced performance and faster innovation, we’re excited to announce several new features today. These new features are beginning to roll out to all Mail & Calendar users over the next few weeks for their Outlook.com and Office 365 accounts. And we’re working hard to bring these to accounts from other providers in the future. Focused Inbox helps you focus on what matters Our inboxes are being inundated with more emails vying for our attention. That’s why we’re giving you a new way to stay focused. [ more… ]

Minecraft: Pocket Edition arrives on Windows 10 Mobile This new edition finally gives Minecraft players on Windows 10 Mobile all the features players know and love: Realms, The End, Texture Packs, Add-Ons and more! Minecraft: Pocket Edition on Windows 10 Mobile is available to all new players for $6.99 USD or local equivalent, but is free to players who already bought the game on Windows Phone 8. Windows Phone 8 players who upgrade their software to Windows Phone 10 will automatically update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition on Windows 10 Mobile. For more about today’s news, head over to Minecraft.net. Source: Minecraft: Pocket Edition arrives on Windows 10 Mobile