{"id":305528,"date":"2019-05-09T08:07:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T06:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=305528"},"modified":"2019-05-09T08:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T06:07:36","slug":"whatsapp-working-on-new-app-for-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/305528-whatsapp-working-on-new-app-for-windows-10.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp working on new app for Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is working on a new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app for Windows 10, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WABetaInfo\/status\/1125852891997143040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>tweet<\/strong><\/a> published by WABetaInfo.<\/p>\n<p>WABetaInfo, which tracks WhatsApp&#8217;s beta updates to find upcoming features, confirmed that the UWP version of the app would be available by the end of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>UWP apps are developed to run on a variety of Windows 10 devices, which means this version of WhatsApp may be able to run on both Windows desktops and compatible Windows Mobile smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>The UWP version of WhatsApp will be available for download from the Microsoft Store once it has launched, meaning desktops running Windows 10 S will also support the application.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp has been dropping support for older Windows Mobile operating systems, and it is unclear whether this upcoming version of the app will support Windows 10 Mobile.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/WABetaInfo\/status\/1125852891997143040<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/305510-whatsapp-mobile-payments.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">WhatsApp mobile payments<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is working on a dedicated UWP app for Windows 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":75147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58952,2594,26970],"class_list":["post-305528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-uwp","tag-whatsapp","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}