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Yeah, it required the Windows Store, and additionally at that time it could only have WinRT (unrelated to Windows RT; basically the old name for UWP) apps. Thes
by TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
Yeah, it required the Windows Store, and additionally at that time it could only have WinRT (unrelated to Windows RT; basically the old name for UWP) apps. These days you can put Win32 apps on the store. If Microsoft allowed Win32 ARM apps on the store, maybe Windows RT would have succeeded. Maybe. Software publishers probably wouldn't have wanted to lose that control.