Microsoft shows off its latest dev tools at Microsoft Build 2020
Microsoft kicked off its Microsoft Build 2020 conference via livestream this morning. A developer-centric event, the livestream is light on consumer-facing products and heavy on developer tools. It still did not disappoint, showing off some major new developments that will excite anyone developing on Windows 10.
During the show, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the company’s latest efforts to make app development easier, by unifying win32 and universal windows platform (UWP) APIs into a single package: Windows apps.
The latest Windows 10 builds use UWP APIs to access the latest features that aren’t accessible on older versions of Windows 10. As a result, most developers specifically target win32 systems by default (which every Windows 10 system supports) when building their apps so they can reach the largest install base possible.
That hurts the development of the latest Windows features, however, since many developers can’t take advantage of Microsoft’s newest developments without sacrificing a segment of the Windows install base that isn’t running the latest Windows 10 update.
