The WinRT Mail app, for example, is only now getting the ability to pop out messages, fer heaven’s sake. WinRT Photos (the Windows 10 Photos app) doesn’t hold a candle to Google Photos. And so on.

Outreach program. Microsoft has touted WinRT/UWP as an option to do truly universal development for Windows devices via one code base and with common packaging that allows for distribution via the ...

A week before, in a further move toward undoing the Win32/UWP divide, Microsoft announced that "non-packaged Windows desktop apps are going to be able to use Windows Runtime (WinRT) components.

Microsoft started pushing UWP — its platform for developing apps that run on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox One, and HoloLens — with the release of Windows 10 in July 2015.

In Windows 10, WinRT was now UWP, a cross-platform development model that mixed support for desktop apps with Xamarin. Meanwhile the familiar .NET was changing too, ...

The project follows Microsoft's earlier C++/WinRT library for the Windows Runtime, which allows developers to write UWP and Win32 Windows apps. Both libraries provide access to the Windows Runtime ...