Today, during the Build 2020 developer conference, Microsoft announced Project Reunion, a new plan aimed at unifying UWP and Win32 desktop apps. The company was faced with the fact that UWP programs were not as popular as originally planned. Many people still use Windows 7 and 8, so most developers are focused on creating Win32 applications.
Microsoft promised from the very beginning that Win32 programs would be available in the company's application store, and over time, more and more attention was paid to this. UWP features are starting to appear in apps on a platform that appears to be on the verge of becoming obsolete. Developers are adding Fluent Design style to Win32 applications and even recompiling them to run on ARM64 PCs.
With Project Reunion, Microsoft is actually trying to combine two application platforms. The company is going to separate the Win32 and UWP APIs from the operating system. Developers will be able to access them using the NuGet package management system, thereby creating a common platform. Microsoft said it is going to make sure that new applications or updated versions of existing programs will work on all supported versions of the OS. Apparently this refers to older builds of Windows 10, since Windows 7 is no longer supported.
Due to the fact that the Project Reunion platform will not be tied to the OS, Microsoft will be able to expand its capabilities without the need to update the operating system. An example of a feature that has been separated from the operating system is WebView2, which is based on Chromium.
Source: 3dnews.ru