I'm an ex hobbyist Windows Phone developer and I have no plan to port any of my applications to UWP. First because I don't like Windows 10 itself: its UI, the

I'm an ex hobbyist Windows Phone developer and I have no plan to port any of my applications to UWP. First because I don't like Windows 10 itself: its UI, the Store, the builtin ads, the forced updates, the invasive telemetry. Should the LTSB edition be available to anyone I would use it, but the Pro edition is a no go. Secondly because I don't like the closeness of UWP. Silverlight was a good platform in my opinion because its runs apps out-of-browser on various editions of Windows and Mac OS. UWP apps on the other side doesn't even run on the most deployed edition of Windows! Finally because I didn't have enough trust in Microsoft on the consumer side. Since the launch of WP7 Microsoft consistently breaks its promises and the expectations of its users and developers base. It doesn't motivate me to invest time to learn APIs and a framework that will be ditched for another one in a few years for no obvious reason. However I still like a lot C# and F#. I'm building & experimenting with Xamarin for front-end applications. MonoGame is portable solution for games but there is no portable UI framework for application. And the investment in UWP is in the total opposite direction of providing or supporting from Microsoft.