As if July 29 wasn’t significant enough, already! Alongside the launch of their new operating system, Microsoft plan to launch the Windows 10 App Store on this date.
The new store is not up yet, but according to this report over at ZDNet by Mary Jo Foley, Redmond will make sure that it is — on the same day that Windows 10 launches. The software titan will also allow developers to submit their universal applications to this unified store on July 29.
Developers, it is being reported, will receive the final version of the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP) on the same day that Windows 10 launches.
And as Microsoft had previously explained, UWP apps are universal applications that run on almost all of the company’s platforms, spanning all devices from traditional PCs to IoT hardware.
Think desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, Xbox, HoloLens, and even devices like the Raspberry Pi.
In fact, Windows recently updated its runtime to .NET Native. This was previously known as Project N, and is something that will be found in the core operating system for all these devices — serving as the default runtime and framework for all UWP apps.
For developers, this means that .NET Native will allow them to run the same app on multiple devices, with significantly better performance.
Thanks to the ahead-of-time compilation, Microsoft estimates that programs will run a fair bit faster, to the tune of up to 60%, while at the same time using 15 to 20% less memory. All this will transition to the end user experience too, obviously.
Users can expect an overall superior experience from these universal apps.
Obviously, developers will be required to tweak their existing applications for Windows 10, but while existing apps will work and be available in the store, these new UWP apps will start being accepted to the repository on the day Windows 10 launches.
source:windows10update
