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The UWP version of Office has never really made sense. Office is a massive project and a moving target from a features perspective. It seems like a monumental t
by cptskippy 8y ago
The UWP version of Office has never really made sense. Office is a massive project and a moving target from a features perspective. It seems like a monumental task to reimplement it from scratch.
It makes more sense to gradually rewrite portions of it but that doesn't work well with the annual release model. It does however work with the O365 continuous release model they adapted from Windows 10.
Just as they're gradually porting Control Panel and other legacy Win32 apps to the Settings App. I could see them gradually convert Office to modern cross platform frameworks.
- tomc1985 8y agoThey have been "gradually porting" the control panel since Windows 7... with like three different UI frameworks in its Windows 10 version it's one of the best examples of Microsoft's schizophrenic approach to code updates
- maxxxxx 8y ago"gradually porting Control Panel and other legacy Win32 apps to the Settings App" They have been porting the control panel since Windows 8 and it's still far from done. How hard can it be to rewrite control panel in UWP?.
- thrower123 8y agoWith all the bits that have lived in there since Win95, I suspect it is something of a Lovecraftian horror.
- tinus_hn 8y agoParts of it are public API with the API specifying the look and even the size of the panels. It’s impossible to rewrite without breaking compatibility.