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by coribuci 2237 days ago
> UWP is the future of Windows APIs, Win32 is mostly frozen since WIndows XP.

Frozen is usually a good thing.

> Microsoft is just making UWP similar to what Google is making with AndroidX, detaching the technology from the OS version.

... and from users also. Will they get a lawsuit from Google for copying their UI as they got from Apple ? I think not because the UI is so bad that they will be ashamed to go to court with something like this.
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pjmlp 2237 days ago
Frozen is only good as means to preserve food.

What did Microsoft copied from Android?!?

If anything, Material 1.0 is heavily based on Metro.

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freeone3000 2237 days ago
Frozen is good because it means you can develop reliable software that will continue to work in the future without running on a constant treadmill of useless updates.
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pjmlp 2237 days ago
Frozen and reliable are not synonyms.

It is also hard to get bug fixes without updates.

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badsectoracula 2237 days ago
The API is frozen, not the features and bug fixes. New APIs can be introduced (and are introduced) and bug fixes and features are added. As a very simple example, see how you can enter emojis in any unicode-aware Win32 input box application with Win+; even though this functionality was introduced in (IIRC) Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
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pjmlp 2237 days ago
Most of that stuff is done in UWP/COM and exposed in Win32 via interoperability APIs.

When Vista emerged as Longhorn's reboot, all the low level .NET stuff was redone in COM.

Since then all new APIs have been to large extent based on COM.

And what many seems to not yet put on their brain, UWP is the new COM.

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badsectoracula 2237 days ago
My point is that Win32 applications still get both new features and bug fixes, how those are implemented isn't really relevant to what i wrote.
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