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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?

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That's true, but only because there isn't a great story in UWP for underlying services.

Non-sandboxed applications and services are not a sustainable strategy anymore.

I wonder how long they'll stick to UWP. In 2 years they probably have another cool next thing.

Yeah, they dropped that .net thing in less than that .. oh wait

They have abandoned WPF, Winforms and Silverlight. Not sure what happened to WinRT.

WinRT got rebranded to UWP.

WPF was XAML v1. Silverlight was XAML v2. UWP has XAML v3. Your skills are still applicable.

There is a little more to it than XAML. Skills wise it's not too bad but I have looked into porting some WPF apps to WinRT a while ago and those frameworks looked very differently under the hood despite some superficial similarity. I still don't understand why they need to create all this framework churn. WPF could have been extended to what UWP is now in my opinion.

XAML was reimplemented in C++ and now renders with DirectComposition instead of Milcore. It's much faster now and far more capable.

You can also now use it with both native C++ and C# thanks to WinRT.

Windows 10 without Win32 would be comparable to iOS. Eventual root access lost on your "PC" and a cut for Microsoft from the store.

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