Karlston Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Windows 10X to reportedly RTM in December, without Win32 app support Microsoft originally developed Windows 10X to support their dual-screened ambitions, but development difficulties eventually caused Microsoft to abandon that plan, and eventually re-target the OS for cheap single-screened laptop-like devices for front-line workers, to compete with ChromeOS. One of the reasons Windows 10X struggled was trying to run Win32 apps in containers in the OS, with Microsoft unable to achieve reasonable performance. Now WindowsLatest reports that Microsoft is finalizing the feature set of Windows 10X in December and that this feature set will not include support for Win32 apps in the VAIL containers. Instead, the OS will only run PWA and UWP apps, and Microsoft will “pre-install” PWA versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, Skype, and so on. Enterprise users will still be able to deliver Win32 apps via remote desktop virtualization, however. According to WindowsLatest, Microsoft is expected to launch devices with the OS in Spring 2021 and will spend the time between December and then with bug fixes and other servicing of the OS. It is unclear if Microsoft will have a public beta test of the OS. Microsoft has already started redeploying some of the technology developed for Windows 10X, such as the new soft keyboard, to Windows 10, making the work not a complete waste. Microsoft may still release a dual-screen version of the OS in 2022 for the much-delayed Surface Duo. Windows 10X to reportedly RTM in December, without Win32 app support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Project union that aims at unifying Win32 and UWP apps can potentially take care of it. main components of it are .NET 5, WinUI 3 and WebView 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Lol Windows 10S v2 = Windows 10x was another M$ pipe dream like Windows 10 phone-PC convergence was a failure Quote After having taken a write-off of $7.6 billion on the acquired Nokia hardware assets, while market share sunk to 1% that year.Microsoft began to prioritize software development and integrations with Android and iOS instead, and ceased active development of Windows 10 Mobile in 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 when you speak of stuff like stuff like ProjectReunion It suffers from what all development does right now . Quote HildyJ Coding is fun. It's why we got into this. Reviewing, documenting, or managing code isn't. The open source community has an added problem with its reliance on volunteers but even in corporate IT, developers who are assigned to review code often lack the focus they have when they are assigned to write code. There a Small Team of of volunteer contributors even large projects the review process is bottleneck right now . People summit patches to the point they dont have time to review them . You stick any old code in your project then you end up with useless software. Every opensource project i visit they like 15 or more idiots requesting new features besides the people complaining about bugs. So you dont know if project will still be around in a few years lots of software i started out with are different forks made by someone who's not got burnout and quit yet. The software apps i started with are dead projects and i just started getting heavy into opensource 5 years ago and its adapt or die only big projects seem to last very long. But that the fun part of im always getting to try new software out when someone quits. Quote Steve Davies 3 I see MS's problem as that are trying to do too much with limited resources. Spread too thinly.The result is everything is in a perpetual 'Beta' state. The Marketing people are in my mind to blame.Microsoft Marketing... The department of thousands of ideas that are all doomed to fail but at least they tried them all... They worth over a trillion dollars and they laid off all there reviewers and software testers and replaced them with volunteers that only signed up to get releases faster they can't review code much less write code even if they know how they can't summit a patch because Windows is closed source. The real testing is done by AI. Meanwhile they have lots of opensource projects that are open on GitHub that questions never get answered and there hardly any activity so we may as well say they are dead in the water. How many of you insiders go to GitHub and contribute to there projects to help make them worth 2 trillion ? From the looks of it not many. If it was anything to being a insider it would be like most projects it would be too much like work to be doing it for free and they would not have but a handful of them. They even bought GitHub something Google never had to do too get rich off open source . What has Microsoft made on there that made them any real money so far ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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