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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Dn894631.aspx

"Universal Windows Platform". Lets you target every Windows 10 device with a single app, from Raspberry Pi 2 to phone to PC's to Xbox One.

Apps are written in C++/C#/VB with XAML markup or JavaScript/HTML/CSS. Also FYI, it takes a minimal amount of work to repackage an existing web app as a UWP.



Does that support Windows 7/8/8.1? If not I won't be able to adopt it for a long time.


No it doesn't. Only works on win10 (phone, PC, tablet & surface hub for the moment, but they are expanding it to hololens and xbox one).


Even Avalon/WPF has been back ported from Vista to WinXP. Afaik, UWP is newer release of WinRuntime (WinRT).


I'll take a look closer to 2023 then, when 8.1 reaches end of life.




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