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Re:Android Killed Windows Phone, Not Apple by pjmlp on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:49AM (#14836837)
UWP cannot run on Windows 7 because it requires a container model, which I doubt they could just patch on Windows 7.
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Re:Android Killed Windows Phone, Not Apple by icebraining on Monday July 24, 2017 @08:24AM (#14837824)
They probably couldn't just port the patches, but there's no reason why they couldn't write a runtime environment on W7, even if it didn't provide the same security guarantees.
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