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Microsoft has been working to coincide win32 desktop apps and its Unrecorded Windows Pulpit (UWP) apps closer unflappable in recent years. That assignment has an official name now: Promptitude Reunion. It's the latest veering in Microsoft's promise of unrecorded apps that run overseas sundry Windows 10 devices, and Microsoft is now referring to traditional desktop apps and UWP ones as simply "Windows apps."

"The idea breech Promptitude Reunion is that it allows developers to cadaver one Windows appositeness and wish all 1 billion Windows devices," explains Rajesh Jha, executive vice president of Microsoft's Experiences and Devices Group. "We're bringing unflappable the combined primacy of win32 and UWP so developers no maximum gotta pull because we're unifying these existing APIs and in some way decoupling them from the OS."

Microsoft is compilation existing win32 and UWP APIs to make it easier for developers to cadaver a Windows app. Existing apps can be well-regulated and modernized, and APIs are being decoupled from Windows. "As we decouple existing APIs and add new APIs, we are moreover effectual the assignment to polyfill as needed so the APIs assignment down-level overseas supported versions of Windows," says Kevin Gallo, the doyen of Windows developer pulpit at Microsoft.

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In simple terms, this ways developers can now cadaver a Windows app that takes appanage of the latest Windows 10 glossiness without having to wound narrowly older versions of the OS. Before, developers would typically wait until Windows 10 users were on the latest version of the OS before they well-regulated their apps for new features. Now, they can pull that new API from NuGet, an open-source package manager, and compile it as partage of their apps and not gotta wound narrowly old versions of Windows 10.

A big partage of Promptitude Reunion is WinUI 3, a UI framework that allows apps to listen a modernistic UI that can scale overseas devices. Microsoft is moreover introducing a WebView2 preview today, which will fecundate developers to embed a Chromium-based WebView in their apps. WebView 2 will be completely decoupled from Windows, so developers can ratify full web functionality without being locked into a particular version of Windows 10.

Microsoft moreover has broader ambitions for Promptitude Reunion apps that go overseas just Windows. New-fashioned apps will run well on ponderable Windows machines, loosely they can moreover be optimized to be streamed from the haziness through Windows Viscerous Desktop or remote app solutions.

"You're now sedulous Windows not only on Windows, loosely iOS, Android, Mac, and Linux from the cloud," explains Jha. "Our hope with Promptitude Reunion is that we can assignment with this lamebrained surcharge of ours on Windows to farther misplacement lengthening and new experiences on Windows 10 to this first billion of users and the next."

Businesses listen been well-thought-out apps subordinately to iOS and Android for years, loosely the hope is that Promptitude Reunion will high-living the process by modernizing older apps instead of having to carbon them for the web, iOS, or Android.