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UWP apps can run on desktop, mobile even consoles. Windows Mobile is dead, so UWP is really just for desktops and Xbox (and Hololens, but no one cares). How ma
by insertnickname 9y ago
UWP apps can run on desktop, mobile even consoles.
Windows Mobile is dead, so UWP is really just for desktops and Xbox (and Hololens, but no one cares). How many apps are going to be used on both desktops and Xbox? Maybe some trivial ones, like a weather app. So, realistically, UWP is for desktop apps, and it's just not as good as WPF for that. It doesn't even come with a multi-column list control!
- drawkbox 9y ago> Windows Mobile is dead, so UWP is really just for desktops and Xbox Surface Pros are desktops but closer to tablets/iPad style. So it is like a desktop on mobile platform really. Lots of business apps are going to the Surface for control reasons like that. Who knows, maybe one day Microsoft returns to mobile phones not just tablets, Surface Pros are making inroads and Windows Ink is solid. Bill Gates tablet vision was too early, Microsoft has a valid competitor, but yea it is technically 'desktop'. Big reasons Microsoft went UWP: Surface/tablets, AOT compiling, Windows Store and building compat with .NET standard/core 2, touch inputs + mouse input, none of which WPF offered. UWP will evolve but it is going to closely match iOS/Android more than Windows desktops of the past.
- insertnickname 9y agoUWP does have some neat new stuff, but they didn't have to ignore the desktop like they obviously did. Desktop is a second-class citizen in UWP.
- martinsuchan 9y agoUWP also runs on Windows IoT...