Re:Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion
by toast0 on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:51AM
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Is it a good thing that the same app can run on desktop, mobile, and console?
I interact with those type of devices in totally different ways. In many cases, you could share some core logic, but the UI should be drastically different. For some types of apps, the core assumptions of the different platforms are so different, it's hard to share anything.
Regardless of that, UWP has poor teach for Microsoft desktop and Microsoft mobile. Somewhere along the way, Microsoft forgot that they won't let most people upgrade from windows phone 8 to windows mobile 10, and that there are a lot of holdouts on desktop too.
I interact with those type of devices in totally different ways. In many cases, you could share some core logic, but the UI should be drastically different. For some types of apps, the core assumptions of the different platforms are so different, it's hard to share anything.
Regardless of that, UWP has poor teach for Microsoft desktop and Microsoft mobile. Somewhere along the way, Microsoft forgot that they won't let most people upgrade from windows phone 8 to windows mobile 10, and that there are a lot of holdouts on desktop too.