[WorldMaker]

There was a brief period in Windows 8 where (proto) UWP apps launched smooth and fast and the Win32 desktop took several additional minutes to launch. With so many stacks living side-by-side on Windows it seems an interesting trade-off between past apps, present apps, and future wishes.

[badsectoracula]

I hope future wishes don't involve adding yet another stack though. They need to fix the stuff they have (without breaking them), not introduce new stuff.

[WorldMaker]

That's part of my sadness in seeing so many posts here talk bad about the UWP. The UWP barely had half a chance to live, and with Microsoft having to spend so much time in the Chromium codebase and working on Android code, with Electron and React Native seemingly becoming the most common development platforms for them, the future for Microsoft already doesn't seem to be UWP.