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Windows 7 plus an evolution Android like, where COM's role get downplayed and we get .NET bindings for all major workflow, with the same performance focus of .NET Core progress would have been great.

UWP was great from the point of view that .NET Native is what .NET 1.0 should have been, and C++/CX was the very first time Microsoft had anything similar to C++ Builder.

However it was horrible managed, and asking everyone to keep rewriting their code isn't something that makes Windows dev community jump of joy.

Now WinUI is too late for the party, too buggy, too many features lacking.