Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to the Windows Store
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Re: Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to the Windows Store
#2What ever happened to programs? Was there something about that word that terribly offended people? Too hard to type out? Is 'app' soon going to be replaced by some kind of pictogram?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Re: Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to the Windows Store
#3What ever happened to programs? Was there something about that word that terribly offended people? Too hard to type out? Is 'app' soon going to be replaced by some kind of pictogram? Enquiring minds want to know.
Laziness?
Re: Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to the Windows Store
#4What ever happened to programs? Was there something about that word that terribly offended people? Too hard to type out? Is 'app' soon going to be replaced by some kind of pictogram? Enquiring minds want to know.
App is shorter than Application or Program. Language evolves as well.
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#5It's weird to hear "win32" called "legacy". Last I checked everything from "wininit.exe" to "svchost.exe" to "winlogon.exe" were win32 (or win64) applications. Guess the entire base operating system is legacy! :O
Re: Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to the Windows Store
#6It's weird to hear "win32" called "legacy". Last I checked everything from "wininit.exe" to "svchost.exe" to "winlogon.exe" were win32 (or win64) applications. Guess the entire base operating system is legacy! :O
Actually, a lot of what you see in Windows 10 is running on top of UWP.
Re: Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to the Windows Store
#7Unless I heard it wrong, the title may be a little inaccurate. I believe they said "to the Windows store or any other store". So you may be able to put UWP apps on other web stores, too.
Re: Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to the Windows Store
#8What ever happened to programs? Was there something about that word that terribly offended people? Too hard to type out? Is 'app' soon going to be replaced by some kind of pictogram? Enquiring minds want to know.
App implies microsoft gets a monopoly on control and distribution (as well as revocation), ie app store, ie walled garden. It also implies you should expect it to not be open source, and you should expect to pay at least $0.99 for it.
Re: Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to the Windows Store
#9It's weird to hear "win32" called "legacy". Last I checked everything from "wininit.exe" to "svchost.exe" to "winlogon.exe" were win32 (or win64) applications. Guess the entire base operating system is legacy! :O
Actually, a lot of what you see in Windows 10 is running on top of UWP.
Some of the UI apps perhaps, but if you ripped out win32, I don't think you'd have a very usable machine left to log on to?
Re: Microsoft Announces Converter for Bringing Win32 Apps to the Windows Store
#10What ever happened to programs? Was there something about that word that terribly offended people? Too hard to type out? Is 'app' soon going to be replaced by some kind of pictogram? Enquiring minds want to know.
program is kinda hard to say because of the 2 r's.