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Microsoft brings WinUI to desktop apps: It's a landmark for Windows development, but it has taken far too long

Warm Braw

I'm not that bothered about the appearance, but the reason that people continue to write Win32 based software is that it works, it works on previous versions of Windows and if Microsoft stop supporting it in future, Windows will be dead anyway. There's really no point in writing a UWP app, it simply restricts the platforms on which it can run.

And, as you say, there have been so many abandoned futures; the only survivor has been the past. Legacy has become Microsoft's USP.

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