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The MS app store and UWP died with the death of Windows Mobile. UWP was MS' strategy to have a united mobile and desktop experience (just like Apple is trying t
by mgamache 7y ago
The MS app store and UWP died with the death of Windows Mobile. UWP was MS' strategy to have a united mobile and desktop experience (just like Apple is trying to do now with OSX + iOS). No mobile == no incentive to develop UWP. There were already hacks for Win32 to use the non-UI APIs from UWP (that's a lot of acronyms) so you could already do most or the UWP stuff with Win32. The new strategy starting with UWP islands is just how they are staring to integrate the UWP offerings with WPF/Winforms officially. I like the UWP UI, but developing the apps is a pain due to the sandboxing (as compared with old Win32).