Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform is their attempt to make developing apps for multiple platforms easier...so they say.
It seems they plan to push this despite skepticism and push back from developers.
Tim Sweeney is really going all out in his attack on it claiming among other things, Microsoft will use the UWP to "break" Steam and force everyone into only using Microsoft's software distribution platform.
This might explain Valve's SteamOS?
Microsoft's UWP
Microsoft's UWP
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Re: Microsoft's UWP
I can't believe how much worse this place has gotten after Ballmer left. Was he the insane strongarm dictator over there holding back the even loonier warlords?
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Re: Microsoft's UWP
I get going after Steam, but to try and "break" your code to force them out because you can't develop and market something better is unethical and pathetic. If I was a shareholder, I'd be demanding that Sweeney's accusations be investigated, and if true, fire the folks responsible.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Re: Microsoft's UWP
That's attributing far too much long term planning and competency to MS."Slowly, over the next five years, they will force-patch Windows 10 to make Steam progressively worse and more broken. They’ll never completely break it, but will continue to break it until, in five years, people are so fed up that Steam is buggy that the Windows Store seems like an ideal alternative. That’s exactly what they did to their previous competitors in other areas. Now they’re doing it to Steam. It’s only just starting to become visible. Microsoft might not be competent enough to succeed with their plan, but they’re certainly trying."
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."