2026-02-07 02:42 UTC
@760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4 @stiv Don’t forget Silverlight as well, that was the platform on Windows Phone 7/8. Best I can think of is that management wanted to get away from the tarnished WinRT name, and engineers took it as an opportunity to fix bad API design (nothing serious, every big framework will have some design mistakes). Probably was also easier to make some of the UI design changes. But it still really could have stayed compatible all the way through.
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@stiv@mastodon.social 2026-02-08 15:39
@kirb @760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4 I'm old enough that I was introduced to .NET Winforms when it was new and got very familiar with it. Then Microsoft introduced WPF and said Winforms was deprecated (this was roughly around 2008 by my memory). Of course to this day you can still find many apps still being written in winforms apps, and EOL still hasn't come, but it threw cold water on a lot of devs. So I guess Microsoft has been creating schisms in its own ecosystem for most of this century.