Re:Save Firefox
by scholia on Thursday May 12, 2016 @10:12AM
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Windows 7 doesn't provide the Windows Runtime infrastructure to support sandboxed, remotely-maintained, universal apps. They'd have to write a new desktop program, and that's pretty unlikely.
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Maybe, but Netflix isn't some little 2-bit company, they're huge and definitely have the resources to build a new program. Now obviously, building a new desktop program to support a dying OS might not make that much sense, but if the customers demand it, Netflix can do it.
They don't need to build a desktop program for Windows 7 when they can show video in a browser.
The advantage of building a Universal app using Windows Runtime is that it will run on Windows 8/8.1/10, Xbox One and Windows Phone. That's more than half a billion users....