Comment by shadowmint
8 years ago
This surprises no one.
I'm more interested in: what's the future for UWP apps now? Another dead end like silverlight?
A cross platform UI library that runs on .Net core (ie. windows, mac, linux, android, ios), some kind of hybrid of ??? and Xamarin forms could potentially be quite a nice tool... but its pretty hard to be excited about the prospect with their track record of killed off UI frameworks so far.
UWP apps wouldn't be so bad for Windows if maybe Microsoft extended their functionality a little and kept improving their performance.
However, what scares me to death as a user is that if UWP is let's say super-popular with developers 5-10 years from now, and everyone builds their apps as UWP apps for Windows, then Microsoft will eventually restrict "normal" users (read: most "consumer" Windows machines) from even side-loading apps from outside of the store.
If that's something that has even crossed the minds of Microsoft's leadership, then I definitely don't want UWP to gain any sort of real traction. And I'd rather see Microsoft improve user security through instant virtualization for apps, like what they're doing with App Guard for Edge, even if it's only an option users could choose, and not something that works by default for most or all apps.
Exactly that was the original intent with Metro apps. For developers, Visual Studio was able to provision keys (online), but otherwise you had to be inside AD domain, or have the Enterprise SKU and "sideloading key".
Only with Windows 10 it became possible to sideload non-win32 apps.
Adobe XD is a fully featured professional UWP creative app, distributed outside the store
http://www.adobe.com/products/experience-design.html
I guess that will depend on Widnows Store, if that is working, even a little, I would guess UWP is safe. The fall creator's update has some nice new features -including SQL and acrylic - it will be interesting to watch adoption rates over the next year
Well the Xbox is still a UWP target, so there are still multiple platforms that use it.
Also I wouldn't be surprised if we see microsoft make a push to allow UWP to target Android.
Currently they are still pushing it as the future, with Desktop Bridge being a stepping stone to migrate Win32 apps into UWP.
I think it has a little more hope with XBOX One support.