Thurrott: It’s “Game Over”, “UWP will disappear”
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Thurrott: It's "Game Over", "UWP will disappear" - MSPoweruser[^] "As far as I can see, the future of native applications on Windows has very little to do with the Microsoft Store. However, I do not expect the store to disappear. But I expect that UWP will disappear, especially on the Windows desktop. And that the Microsoft Store remains irrelevant to most users and most developers." This sums up my opinion of UWP pretty much since its introduction. Thoughts? Any fans of UWP over "legacy" WPF desktop app development?
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Thurrott: It's "Game Over", "UWP will disappear" - MSPoweruser[^] "As far as I can see, the future of native applications on Windows has very little to do with the Microsoft Store. However, I do not expect the store to disappear. But I expect that UWP will disappear, especially on the Windows desktop. And that the Microsoft Store remains irrelevant to most users and most developers." This sums up my opinion of UWP pretty much since its introduction. Thoughts? Any fans of UWP over "legacy" WPF desktop app development?
FUD. Surface sales are exceeding all expectations. Most apparently not even being moved out of "Z" mode (i.e. "Store"). Windows store is getting rid of "Books" ... good? Learn WPF or UWP; i.e. XAML. Create Net standard libraries for inter-op. Avoid Xamarin for now unless you like big buttons, lame list controls and tiny real estate (and long compiles).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then". ― Blaise Pascal
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Thurrott: It's "Game Over", "UWP will disappear" - MSPoweruser[^] "As far as I can see, the future of native applications on Windows has very little to do with the Microsoft Store. However, I do not expect the store to disappear. But I expect that UWP will disappear, especially on the Windows desktop. And that the Microsoft Store remains irrelevant to most users and most developers." This sums up my opinion of UWP pretty much since its introduction. Thoughts? Any fans of UWP over "legacy" WPF desktop app development?
The thing you have to remember about Thurrott is that he's aiming to make money from clicks so titles like this are massive clickbait. UWP will not disappear - for some reason, he completely failed to understand what all the announcements at Build were wrt UWP.
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