Windows 10: Differentiate UWP apps from win32/64 software.

Martin Fessler · Mar 31, 2020

Hello everybody,

I wonder, what is the easiest way to determine if a software is a UWP app or a win32/64 software?

Thanks and greetings,
Martin

:)

Brink · Mar 31, 2020

Microsoft wants to close the UWP and Win32 divide with Windows Apps

Is Microsoft's UWP going away? Is the Microsoft Store on its way out? Microsoft Corporate VP Kevin Gallo explains the latest twists in Microsoft's long and winding Windows developer platform strategy.

For months, many pundits, partners and customers have wondered aloud whether Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (UWP) has a future. Officially, the story is UWP is alive and well. But the Win32 platform lives on and seems to be back on Microsoft's radar screen. So what's the real story?

I had a chance this week in Seattle to ask Kevin Gallo, Corporate Vice President of the Windows Developer Platform, for his take on what's going on with the Windows developer platform.

When Microsoft launched UWP in 2015, officials promised that the platform would provide apps with better performance and security because they'd be distributable and updatable from the Microsoft Store. Developers would be able to use a common set of programming interfaces across Windows 10, Windows Phone, HoloLens and more, officials said, when selling the UWP vision. The downside: UWP apps would work on Windows 10-based devices only. Developers would have to do work to get their apps to be UWP/Store-ready. And Win32 apps wouldn't get UWP features like touch and inking.

Arguably, Gallo told me, "we shouldn't have gone that way," meaning creating this schism. But Microsoft execs -- including Gallo -- continue to maintain that UWP is not dead.

Over the past year or so, Microsoft has been trying to undo some of the effects of what Gallo called the "massive divide" between Win32 and UWP by adding "modern desktop" elements to Win32 apps.

"By the time we are done, everything will just be called 'Windows apps,'" Gallo told me. "We're not quite there yet." But the ultimate idea is to make "every platform feature available to every developer."
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Read more:

Microsoft wants to close the UWP, Win32 divide with 'Windows Apps' | ZDNet

Microsoft Confirms UWP is Not the Future of Windows Apps - Thurrott.com

Brink · Mar 31, 2020

Microsoft wants to close the UWP and Win32 divide with Windows Apps

Is Microsoft's UWP going away? Is the Microsoft Store on its way out? Microsoft Corporate VP Kevin Gallo explains the latest twists in Microsoft's long and winding Windows developer platform strategy.

For months, many pundits, partners and customers have wondered aloud whether Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (UWP) has a future. Officially, the story is UWP is alive and well. But the Win32 platform lives on and seems to be back on Microsoft's radar screen. So what's the real story?

I had a chance this week in Seattle to ask Kevin Gallo, Corporate Vice President of the Windows Developer Platform, for his take on what's going on with the Windows developer platform.

When Microsoft launched UWP in 2015, officials promised that the platform would provide apps with better performance and security because they'd be distributable and updatable from the Microsoft Store. Developers would be able to use a common set of programming interfaces across Windows 10, Windows Phone, HoloLens and more, officials said, when selling the UWP vision. The downside: UWP apps would work on Windows 10-based devices only. Developers would have to do work to get their apps to be UWP/Store-ready. And Win32 apps wouldn't get UWP features like touch and inking.

Arguably, Gallo told me, "we shouldn't have gone that way," meaning creating this schism. But Microsoft execs -- including Gallo -- continue to maintain that UWP is not dead.

Over the past year or so, Microsoft has been trying to undo some of the effects of what Gallo called the "massive divide" between Win32 and UWP by adding "modern desktop" elements to Win32 apps.

"By the time we are done, everything will just be called 'Windows apps,'" Gallo told me. "We're not quite there yet." But the ultimate idea is to make "every platform feature available to every developer."
Click to expand...

Read more:

Microsoft wants to close the UWP, Win32 divide with 'Windows Apps' | ZDNet

Microsoft Confirms UWP is Not the Future of Windows Apps - Thurrott.com

Lisa Li (lisali) · Mar 31, 2020

How to save password of win32 desktop app(not UWP app ) securely with Credential Manager?

I want to use Windows’s Credential Manager to save password of win32 desktop app(not UWP app). I write some test programs to read password of win32 app which are stored on Credential Manager, but I found password of win32 app can be easily got.

Is there a way to save password of win32 app securely？

Windows 10: Differentiate UWP apps from win32/64 software.

Differentiate UWP apps from win32/64 software.

Differentiate UWP apps from win32/64 software.

Differentiate UWP apps from win32/64 software.

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