Hey Gbatemp community, it has been a while. I hope you're doing well.
It was announced around six days ago that Microsoft will allow Win32 apps to be submitted for the windows store. Effectively getting rid of the obnoxious UWP requirement. It was a painful process to convert existing apps to UWP, and a lot of developers gave up on the process.
I personally find this interesting for the homebrew scene. If I understand correctly, this may open room for more apps and games to be ported easily to the windows store and the Xbox one. For example, I was thinking that someone could port Ubuntu to the xbox one to get linux to officially run on the console. Linux alone would open a lot of cool ideas.
Microsoft has only confirmed this so far with the windows store. But I don't see why they wouldn't allow this on xbox one as well. After all, the windows store releases games on both platforms. Microsoft confirmed they will talk more at E3, so hopefully we will hear amazing news.
What do you think? Do you think this is possible? or am I exaggerating with my dreams.
Source: https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3076594/rip-uwp
It was announced around six days ago that Microsoft will allow Win32 apps to be submitted for the windows store. Effectively getting rid of the obnoxious UWP requirement. It was a painful process to convert existing apps to UWP, and a lot of developers gave up on the process.
I personally find this interesting for the homebrew scene. If I understand correctly, this may open room for more apps and games to be ported easily to the windows store and the Xbox one. For example, I was thinking that someone could port Ubuntu to the xbox one to get linux to officially run on the console. Linux alone would open a lot of cool ideas.
Microsoft has only confirmed this so far with the windows store. But I don't see why they wouldn't allow this on xbox one as well. After all, the windows store releases games on both platforms. Microsoft confirmed they will talk more at E3, so hopefully we will hear amazing news.
What do you think? Do you think this is possible? or am I exaggerating with my dreams.
Source: https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3076594/rip-uwp