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This is all about fixing a mistake that never should have been made. They did the UWP split around the time of Windows 8 and since then have tried to prop up th
by sylens 6y ago
This is all about fixing a mistake that never should have been made. They did the UWP split around the time of Windows 8 and since then have tried to prop up the Windows Store with Windows Mobile ports, XBox games, and other ventures. It’s good to see them finally recognize that the Microsoft Store wasn’t going to go anywhere.
- tasogare 6y agoYep, and this fiasco was easy to predict: of course nobody (enterprises and hobbyists) would rewrite decades of legacy code to a platform that 1. wasn’t supported on the most deployed Windows version at the time 2. didn’t provide feature parity with Win32 3. imposed an ugly toolkit not adapted to desktop apps (i.e. 100% of Windows device at the time, and probably still >90% nowadays) and 4. imposed a distribution model with a very significant "store tax".
- wvenable 6y agoThe UWP project was all about Windows Phone -- it was a platform for running more constrained and less battery-heavy applications on a phone while also allowing those apps to run on the desktop. When their phone platform imploded, UWP suddenly didn't have a real market.