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Re:Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsoft's UWP by flohofwoe on Monday May 31, 2021 @04:29AM (#27341636)
If Microsoft had put all the work into improving the Win32 underpinnings instead of throwing it all away and inventing all new and incompatible APIs it would have been fine. Modern UI frameworks can be implemented on top of the basic Win32 UI elements or even Direct2D, and those modern UI frameworks don't need to live on the operating system side at all but can be linked into applications.

Windows basically has lost a decade chasing a pointless unification of desktop and mobile platforms. UWP turned out a turd, no matter how you look at it.

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Re:Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsoft's UWP by pjmlp on Monday May 31, 2021 @04:53AM (#27341826)
Indeed, and that is what Project Reunion is all about.

Except they seemed not to have gotten the message and still are asking for rewrites, with less capable tooling.

EDIT: The only thing Reunion seems to be good for is as migration path into Win32 for UWP apps.

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