Microsoft abandons UWP apps and goes native
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Microsoft pushed their UWP apps (aka Metro/Windows Store apps) but are now silently reverting back to native Windows APIs (formerly called Win32 API).
All UI features that UWP had will be ported to the native Windows API. And all future UI development, aka WinUI 3, will be developed only for the native Windows API SDK. UWP will get security and bug updates but no new features.
https://www.thurrott.com/dev/258377/microsoft-officially-deprecates-uwp
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/windows-app-sdk/migrate-to-windows-app-sdk/overall-migration-strategy
https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/discussions/1615 -
Anything associated with Windows 8 was bound to fail.
