[WorldMaker]

To further tangent: I don't think the last Office related announcement says anything about UWP that people think it does.

From my understanding, the Office apps that were killed were supposedly forked from the web apps and actually ran as UWP HTML/JS.

Meanwhile, Office has also announced plans to move forward with more UWP XAML Islands to integrate more Fluent Design in the UX starting soon after the Windows October release, and part of why the Office 2019 LTS was shipped where it was and arguably why Office 365 pushed to align to only support latest Windows releases so they could move forward on Fluent Design dogfooding.

They did sunset the non-UWP OneNote with this LTS release, and the UWP XAML app is supposed to be the only Windows version of OneNote moving forward.

[pjmlp]

Lets see, I watched the Office sessions at BUILD, so that was my understanding until the announcement came last week.

[WorldMaker]

Yeah, BUILD's where most of where my impressions come from, especially from how pleasantly happy that the Fluent Design Team was with finally merging in some of Office's design resources and working to align Office towards dogfooding Fluent controls directly.

The implication I take from the UWP "Office Mobile" app shutdowns is that Office is now confident that if UWP returns to mobile it will do so with "real" Office, which was my takeaway from BUILD that that was the strategy they were pursuing.

I think it's another case of Microsoft not being able to properly spin "nuance" in a press release, because they don't want to comment on future plans or publicly commit to things still in flux/prototyping/development.