Microsoft’s been trying to drop win32 support since at least Win 8, remember Windows RT?
They don’t want it to be an open platform anymore, but they know they have to bait everyone including business into it, and they’ll have to go hard and fast once they think they have the sell.
If they fuck it up bad enough they risk everyone switching to compatibility layers and hardware emulators like wine/dxvk and fex.
Even just holding that position for a year or so could fuck them. In the meantime everyone would be switching, app devs would be targeting compatibility layers. Once they’ve already bought in elsewhere its a LOT harder to get them to bite again.
Microsoft’s been trying to drop win32 support since at least Win 8, remember Windows RT?
They don’t want it to be an open platform anymore, but they know they have to bait everyone including business into it, and they’ll have to go hard and fast once they think they have the sell.
If they fuck it up bad enough they risk everyone switching to compatibility layers and hardware emulators like wine/dxvk and fex.
Even just holding that position for a year or so could fuck them. In the meantime everyone would be switching, app devs would be targeting compatibility layers. Once they’ve already bought in elsewhere its a LOT harder to get them to bite again.