Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP

I know a lot of people like XAML, but as a XAML skeptic (yes, I've had the misfortune to work with it professionally), maybe MS should take note that all XAML-based UI frameworks end up being unpopular outside of LOB apps and they keep on deprecating them (or virtually abandoning them like WPF), but still keep on remaking basically the same framework over and over again, developer experience-wise.

And then people turn around and accuse Google of ADD. This is like sixth or seventh half baked app framework MS has released in 20 years, with the last usable one being Windows Forms (which was ripped off directly from Borland VCL). I pity the fool who spent his/her time learning all this stuff from 800+ page encyclopedia sized books.

Silverlight -> Windows 8 -> UWP -> Windows App SDK

You just gotta feel bad for the Windows developers on this one, along with XNA and all the other stuff in the past couple of years.

How does the Windows App SDK differ from UWP? Does it still include the awful DRM features that prevent viewing/editing/deleting files on your own hard drive?

Three-letter Microsoft acronyms come and go, but win32 is forever.

If people would accept the elegance of COBOL and stop demanding eye candy the world would be a more efficient place. Dev stack churn and application rewrites in stacks which frequently change account for substantial waste.

So, does this mean my Win32 api programs will keep working, or not?

Well that was fast. Only 6 years old