During Microsoft's last BUILD, Bill Gates' company has published several tools and workshops on how to pass various applications to Universal Applications and with it take it to Microsoft Store, the Microsoft store. But really if you don't lead by example, little is achieved.
So Microsoft has decided to bring its classic Win32 applications to the Microsoft Store. Now we can find the classic Wordpad or Windows Fax in the Microsoft Store and working not only on Windows 10 Desktop but also on Windows 10 tablets and mobiles. Something that continues to be striking for users who go from old Windows to Windows 10 but even more striking for developers.
This step is within the Centennial Project, a project that seeks to integrate the old Windows applications in Microsoft Store, so that users and developers go through Microsoft's control. Before BUILD we heard about an application that made reference to Office and this suite may also reach this format, but beforehand Microsoft has decided to try simpler applications such as Paint or Wordpad.
Wordpad and Paint are now available in the Microsoft Store and can be used on Xbox One
In addition to the Centennial project, Microsoft tries encourage the transfer of apps from other ecosystems such as iOS or Android to Windows and then, once they are in universal app format, take it to the Microsoft Store to make it available to Windows 10 Mobile, Xbox and Windows 10 users.
Microsoft is really making great efforts to promote universal applications and they are really good, but it does not finish curdling and many developers are not yet using or developing their universal apps. Maybe now, after seeing and testing these new universal apps from old win32 applications, developers will be more encouraged to use the Microsoft Store?what do you think?