Comment by amatheus
8 years ago
Where does this leave Windows Universal Development? Hardly Universal if it’s only for Windows 10 desktop. I’m no Windows nor Xbox user, but do people develop using Universal for both? Are there other platforms right now worth targeting for Windows Universal?
There's still HoloLens, Surface Hub, XBox, and IoT Core and Enterprise.
My employer writes UWP apps for itself, because we have all of these devices (even XBox) and write UWP apps for them all (because with the exception of IoT Enterprise, they're all UWP-only.)
IoT Mobile is still a SKU that Microsoft sell, by the way. Guess what IoT Mobile is? It's Windows Mobile.
It isn't dead, it's just not getting new features. It'll be replaced by OneCore in the not too distant future, I imagine.
UWP is getting new features all the time, it's the way forward for Windows apps and will stay for many years to come. Even all the default Windows 10 apps and stuff like settings UI are UWP.
OneCore is an internal Windows refactor that won't affect users nor developers.