Microsoft has acknowledged that its efforts to push UWP apps into the market has fundamentally not worked. The company plans to extend UWP features to Win32 apps int he future.

If you wanted to write modern C++ applications that use WinRT/UWP, the traditional method was either to use custom—aka nonstandard— Microsoft C++/CX language extensions, or use the “verbose ...

On October 14, 2025, Microsoft is ending support for "OneNote for Windows 10," which was a UWP version of the note-taking app ...