What's next for Universal Windows era?

[DmitryBorodiy]

Hello, WinUI developers team!!!
I would like to know what comes next for Universal Windows Developers. Since I am interested in making my services and applications available on all Windows devices (Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S, HoloLens 1x and 2x, Surface Hub 2 / 2S), I would like to see Microsoft and the Windows development team grow. in this direction more than in the direction of classic applications, since this branch of development is outdated and the market requires universal solutions with the same experience of use. What I'm talking about is that Windows is not only a PC OS, it is more than just an OS. Windows works as a service and I would like any user and developer to be able to provide one WinUI (UWP) experience across all devices from Microsoft and beyond. For me, Windows is not just an OS or a service, it is a whole world with its own separate ideology and great capabilities, and I would like my users to be able to get a unified experience of using Windows applications (UWP / WinUI) on all their devices (not only PCs), like and a unified experience of using Windows on all of its devices.

Thank you!
Best wishes and happy holidays!!!
Seen in the next year!!!
🎄🎄🎄

[robloo]

Good luck.

#3639
microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#1055
microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#105

[ghost]

someone was Ahead of Time actually

What's next for the replacement of UWP that runs on all windows based platforms?
microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/issues/215

Question: will All Project Reunion APIs be able to run on future and existing other windows powered platforms (eg : Xbox/Hololens) ?
microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/discussions/383

[pjmlp]

Just jump into Qt or C++ Builder, or Uno, and you will have trully universal apps that expand beyond Windows.

[llothar]

I'm very outspoken that Win Application Sdk is another failed MS project. Only thanks to agile development something got published at all. I strongly believe that if they don't abandon it right away, like they always do, but increase the dev team size and work a few more years on it with high priority, they might be able turn it around and we will have a great library working well with Windows 12 and able to be competitive to Gtk or Qt.

But seeing a handful items on the product backlog and one is about adding a 5 function API for environmental variables, it's hard to believe that they are still serious. Lets see what happens after christmas holiday.

Windows for me and hunderts of millions is still business apps. I do not think we should pollute it to support other virtually non existing (ms tablets, ms phones, hololenses) or non relevant systems for a general purpose GUI (like XBox Gaming, Embedded Devices).

A good toolkit with the focus on doing one thing well - the productive Desktop, either on a stationary computer or a notebook - would be so great. Other devices need to get other specialized toolkits and need an optimized Gui for their purpose. The Win8 fatality teached us all about that.

[StephenLPeters]

@ryandemopoulos and @MikeHillberg