[emodendroket]

> No "are you sure you want to exit? Save/Don't save" dialogs. If you close or crash pray your data was saved, and if it takes a long time to flush to disk...really pray.

Of course not, because it's supposed to also work on mobile. Does your iPad let applications prevent you from going back to the home screen?

[flukus]

> Of course not, because it's supposed to also work on mobile. Does your iPad let applications prevent you from going back to the home screen?

You don't see the problem here? Why do I want the restrictions of mobile phones limiting my desktop applications?

[emodendroket]

Well, for one, I don't see how else the concept of "universal apps" could possibly work.

[flukus]

Neither do I. The question then becomes "should they exist?".

[emodendroket]

It might not be a good fit for Office. But it seems fine for some applications.

[kodfodrasz]

It's totally OK for Office, just because you are accustomed to something. You can try the office mobile product line on windows 10 (available from the store), which is UWP, and pretty usable for its limited feature set, and the lack of "do you do u really really really want to quit?" modal popups.

Bashing UWP for advocating a different app model, and different UI design principles is like still using bash in 2016 because you are accustomed to ash from the 70s, and GUIs cannot go to start of line with Ctrl-A, thus saying they are inferior. Change has its positive sides and drawbacks, but in both cases it is mostly for the better.

[emodendroket]

The whole point of getting Office is that practically every conceivable feature you could want is supported. If it's a limited feature set you might as well be using something else.

[flukus]

So I can install office from the app store and it can open documents I have in c:\docs?