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a new Windows version with no direct upgrade path and breaking backward compatibility with Win32 ? Good luck getting devs and enterprise IT on it. Project Cent
by luch 9y ago
a new Windows version with no direct upgrade path and breaking backward compatibility with Win32 ? Good luck getting devs and enterprise IT on it.
Project Centennial is an amazing piece of virtualization but it has its caveats (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop-to-uwp-prepare https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop...): it won't be able to convert every legacy software (why isn't Office on the Windows Store for example ?).
At best, it will target locked down hardware like consoles and tablets, but isn't what Windows S was created for ?
- melling 9y agoWhat software will it be able to run? I’m not a Windows users, but a future version of the Surface might be appealing. Love my iPad but would like Photoshop on it, for example. Think this might go in devices used by the next 2 billion computer users? Emerging markets...
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- sasmithjr 9y ago> (why isn't Office on the Windows Store for example ?) That changed within the last week, apparently. http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-brings-its-core-office-apps-to-the-microsoft-store/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-brings-its-core-offic...
- rbanffy 9y ago> Good luck getting devs and enterprise IT on it. Make an easy migration path for SAP, Oracle and Visual Basic and the problem is mostly solved.