Re:Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion
by drawkbox on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @10:49PM
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> Windows Mobile is dead, so UWP is really just for desktops and Xbox
Surface Pros are desktops but closer to tablets/iPad style. So it is like a desktop on mobile platform really. Lots of business apps are going to the Surface for control reasons like that. Who knows, maybe one day Microsoft returns to mobile phones not just tablets, Surface Pros are making inroads and Windows Ink is solid. Bill Gates tablet vision was too early, Microsoft has a valid competitor, but yea it is technically 'desktop'.
Big reasons Microsoft went UWP: Surface/tablets, AOT compiling, Windows Store and building compat with .NET standard/core 2, touch inputs + mouse input, none of which WPF offered. UWP will evolve but it is going to closely match iOS/Android more than Windows desktops of the past.
Re:Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion
by insertnickname on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:22PM
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UWP does have some neat new stuff, but they didn't have to ignore the desktop like they obviously did. Desktop is a second-class citizen in UWP.
Re:Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion
by martinsuchan on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:02AM
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UWP also runs on Windows IoT...
Windows Mobile is dead, so UWP is really just for desktops and Xbox (and Hololens, but no one cares). How many apps are going to be used on both desktops and Xbox? Maybe some trivial ones, like a weather app. So, realistically, UWP is for desktop apps, and it's just not as good as WPF for that. It doesn't even come with a multi-column list control!