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I remain of the opinion the reference to "...we will create more opportunity for every Windows developer today

Lo the Windows speculator. He riseth in the morning and upsetteth the whole household. Mighty are his preparat

...and dual screen in the sense it'll be an AR overlay atop Windows.

it's not an '11', it's a dual screen, right?

I asked Scott Hunter what might be happening in the common control space to which he kindly directed me to the

thinking again about the Windows hype... if Nadella really was 'hosting' Windows, that suggests a home or offi

It has to be about ditching the traditional OS and streaming cloud served apps to a light-weighted UI renderin

Very astute comment from Mary Jo concerning Flutter for UWP, and only at the alpha stage too.I've kept hoping

Very

They've lost any agility they had by not parking up a bunch of stuff with .NET 5

I have to say, Google's announcement that a new Flutter (alpha I think) will run on UWP does not exactly bode

In reply to decommissaris:and a barred 'I' unlike the one posted here!

It's difficult to assess without seeing all the weights, condensed, italicised and extended families toge

In reply to nbplopes:MS need to park up WinForms & WPF with .NET 5 and create VS with a cross-platform UI

in reply to fishnet37222 Just to be clear I'm referring to the apps one could create.

a cross platform UI like Flutter would reduce the complexity admirably...

I wonder how much OnePlus would set MS back?! Only kidding!

Afraid I still don't get the Duo-screen value proposition. Whilst it's very nice for a dev to be abl

It's surely telling that Edge, which is an implementation of Chrome, still faces compatibility issues wit

I love CorelDraw, shame it struggled to gain traction in the print world (or at least in the UK). I still beli

In reply to illuminated: I think what you say is very true. I've been saying for a long time XAML should

In reply to paul-thurrott: I wouldn't agree MS have embraced every UI stack.

In reply to paul-thurrott: Point noted, MS is sounding a bit more like IBM or AWS these days. I would argue MS

In reply to lvthunder: MS were close to a ubiquitous platform with .NET back in 2001 - common data layer, comm

On dismissing a unified Blazor-MAUI platform, I wonder if Richard Lander will be eating his words, though it&#

In reply to saint4eva: re the upcoming .NET Maui MVU: being able to write the UI in C# is great, I just don�

In reply to SYNERDATA: On the one hand websites, 'the web', are of course a series of interconnected

I'd be interested to know why there would zero reason for MS to want to do that: better support for CSS f

Presumably Mozilla has realised that browserless PWA's might obviate the need to have a browser in the fi

MS are really pushing out the graphics boat this time...

In reply to paul-thurrott: sorry for not making clear (hey, it's a hallmark!) - I'm sure Scott H pro

off topic: what's happening/has happened - to the Maui release for devs, which I thought was promised yea

Up until recently I've always used Edge and Chrome for my primary web development work, but recently I�

Regarding today's closing comments about where things are going with W10 and WinUI, with web (which would

In reply to tsemo2020:thanks tsemo2020 - makes sense. Clearly one would be best to develop through the MAUI ab

Paul - I'm very confused about WinUI 3 with a 2021 release schedule vs MAUI with a similar timeframe. Per

In reply to TheJoeFin: I have 2 issues with MS: 1) "Blazor WebAssembly runs on a .NET IL interpreter without a

In reply to TheJoeFin: I would say MS devs latterly think the world revolves around everyone who's not wr

In reply to TheJoeFin: please stop and think about what you're writing for just a moment. Blazor on WebAs

In reply to TheJoeFin: the bottom line is MS lost site of what .NET was supposed to be all about, which was un

In reply to TheJoeFin: I would say blue77star has a really good point. After the Silverlight debacle, anyone i

In reply to rmac: just tried it out and the visual rendering is not brilliant. Clearly the screenshot is of a

In reply to paul-thurrott: well let's hope the extension becomes available in VS then otherwise instead o

ooohh, lovely. All we need now is some direction that VS Code is to subsume VS (otherwise, why would one adver

In reply to paul-thurrott: you don't foresee Google shafting us all with a PlayStore dependency i.e. apps

..one good reason not to go down the Flutter & Dart root.

I thought UWP was dead, that Maui and Blazor was the future? And why would you need UWP if you had Flutter?

I'd be happier sticking 2 phones together.

MS need to sign up with Adobe and create an XD-Blazor plugin.

Until tonight I had no idea back in May Adobe XD built in support for Flutter. I've been trying to shout

There are 3 things wrong with this: icons are too small as to be intelligible or interesting; icon colours are

In reply to paul-thurrott:For sure that was poor wording on my part. My point /my fear should have been/is th

MS build a Linux subsystem into Windows 10. MS gets over 1 billion users on the Windows 10 OS. MS releases a p

Well I can't say it's blowing me away.Here's one for MS. Instead of that screen over screen, ho

Another step in the right direction, but just look at this MS artwork which has become endemic across the enti

In reply to jimchamplin: ...that's your opinion!

I think these icons are absolutely awful. If only MS had done something 'big' like leaving the flat

"Microsoft is—finally—embracing PWA technologies in its main web applications. Hopefully, this is the star

FT is absolutely up there amongst the top!Let's hope we can keep MS on the right (.NET) track for devs, P

don't you just love Blackadder: youtube.com/watch?v=QeF1JO7Ki8E

Surely one can go into Visual Studio today and write a Xamarin app that runs on Android, and (for release May

quite an announcement on the UNO Platform blog.

I think the next move would be for MS to replace the W10 start layout with Android. All those in favour?!

In reply to bigbux:If you look at Roth's graph, then consider that Duo is an Android device, you have to

In reply to FactoryOptimizr: if I may say, you're kind of teaching me to suck eggs regarding what UI Blaz

In reply to darkgrayknight: do you really think Google or Samsung are going to find it difficult to port Andro

In reply to FactoryOptimizr: I can only presume despite the lesson of Silverlight, MS thinks it's OK to p

In reply to trevor_chdwck: agree 100%

In reply to Havoc: perhaps I erroneously assumed another reader would have taken heed of the article headline.

In reply to Havoc: presumably Android developers.

The one positive is I'll be able to finally justify moving away from VS and C# to Kotlin, Dart & Flut

In reply to judgejewelz: I'm curious to ask why an Android Surface as opposed to a Windows Surface would

MS, a company who failed in the small device hardware market, decides to build another hardware device and swa

The big news is Blazor client side will be released May '20.

In reply to Rob_Wade:I never got myself a Wiindows Phone but I always thought the form factor (save for the ti

The look of W10 and the Win UI SDK 2.2 is for me the best UI MS have ever done. I actually wish MS could just

I think MS should focus on a 'wireless hinge' and coupling/tethering 2 or more disparate screens e.g

I would suggest a 'Hinge Design for Dual-Screen' should comprise a wireless hinge and 2 disparate sc

From what Paul is saying, Chredge is going nowhere with so few downloads. It's sad if Edge just isn'

OFF TOPIC: did the Xamarin website front end just disappear? I can't seem to find the old site. And there

Whether it came from my first purchases of VB or VS and ultimately an MSDN subscription when I could afford it

Any idea what language/framework this was written in/against? is it web or UWP based?

You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth.

MS need to get on and ready Blazor for WebAssembly and stop pratting around with icons.

Apart from the obvious platform restriction, my only real gripe with UWP was the persistent vertical menu. The

sounds as though Windows is MS's 2nd sacrificial pawn following a Chrome based Edge.this ahead of abandon

what about a common UI stack? I'll stick with .NET framework for now and keep off the Core kool-ade. Mean

Blazor's a bit like Churchill's WW1 tanks. A brilliant idea without sufficient momentum at launch on

1.5 years to embrace WebAssembly? Proves my earlier point which I deduced from the Hanselman site back along.

It seems trivial to talk about icons yet I feel compelled to say I think that the 'canary' icon look

From Cortana to Edge, through to UI frameworks such as XAML and WinForms which have gone opensource, it seems

With the continued enhancements in Chrome and Edge, effectively pulling the same way and heading in a PWA dire

I'm amazed at how little coverage Blazor and WebAssembly got when these combined technologies should brin

I mentioned it on Mehedi's page on PWAs, but one further thing you'll see MS super excited about (Da

One further thing Mehedi, you'll see MS are pretty excited about WebAssembly so devs can write in C# (or

In reply to skane2600: I hear you re: pro-dec era. Markup is such an inefficient thing to type up but I suppos

In reply to Evilsushi: totally agree if we can get rid of XAML

In reply to Evilsushi: I do think one major obstacle is XAML. An app's UI could, I am sure, be created fr

In reply to csf: OK, well icons then and timelines!

This is the start of a powerful trend. A tile version of the same with some very limited functionality and the

'Outlook calendar on the web'... when are we going to see a core UI stack that embraces XAML and HTM

There are so many compelling aspects of this UI that I just love it, except for one thing. The start menu stil

Android on one screen and W10 on the other?

OMG don't tell me MS are going to bring out an Android phone?!

Sorry but I really like the name Windows Store (for B&M and online). What has perhaps dragged the name dow

As Microsoft seems to be following a 'cloud first' (only) strategy, I guess this is really 'Win

In the space of just a few last lines, Paul's 'advice' section articulately nails a fundamental

It will continue to be good to 'create stuff' on Windows, but to regain dominance, that 'stuff&