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> Microsoft (and by that I mean both Arbogast and Myerson) was just plain stupid to break app compatibility multiple times between Windows Mobile 6.x and Window
by m45t3r 8y ago
> Microsoft (and by that I mean both Arbogast and Myerson) was just plain stupid to break app compatibility multiple times between Windows Mobile 6.x and Windows Phone 10. What exactly did they think was going to happen to their app count after pissing off their developer base?
I think the problem was not breaking compatibility between WM and WP, but breaking compatibility between WP7 and WP8. That and being too little too late (small number of apps when both Android and iOS stores were thriving).
- pjmlp 8y agoThe WinDev and its support by management was certainly a cause for it. Instead of improving the Silverlight + XNA programming models, they just rebooted everything with WinRT, using an incompatible .NET implementation and forcing three implementation stacks (phone, tablet and desktop). Followed by the UAP partial reunification in 8.1, then the UWP reboot.