There is good news for Microsoft device owners and developers. On July 29, 2015, Microsoft’s launch of Windows 10 to the general public on July 29 will be accompanied by the opening of the unified Windows Store. Mary Jo Foley of ZDnet broke the news after confirming the information with Microsoft.
Foley writes:
“UWP applications, thanks to .NET Native, will be able to start up roughly 30 percent faster and have a memory footprint of 15 percent less. In order to gain these kinds of benefits, developers will need to retarget their existing Windows Store/Universal apps to Windows 10. (Those building line-of-business apps that will be sideloaded also will get the same kinds of performance benefits via .NET Native, Microsoft officials said.)”
The final version of Microsoft’s .NET tools for Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application development will be delivered. Developers who have created apps using Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform (UWP) framework will be able to submit them to the new Windows Store on that same day.
When Microsoft architected .NET more than a decade and a half ago, its developers didn’t really have target devices in mind, said Habib Heydarian, Principal Group Program Manager, .NET Platform. When the developer team began working on .NET Native close to three years ago, members wanted to create device optimized experiences, he said.
With UWP apps, developers can largely write once and run on any device running the Windows 10 core, including Windows 10 PCs, Windows Phones running Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox One (once it’s updated to run Windows 10), the coming HoloLens and even Raspberry Pi boards.
