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Will Microsoft Edge be UWP on Windows 10?
hez2010 my experience with UWP has been very disastrous. Even simple apps, like the new calculator app, take ages to load. The RAM usage and hard drive usage prevents me of using many apps at the same time (say, Visual Studio and Outlook). And I'm using a developer machine with Corei7 and 12GB RAM! Personally I'm glad UWP is being slowly and quietly phased out by Microsoft. You can get the same UI experience with WPF apps though, if you really like FluentUI (which I personally don't). And WPF uses Win32 calls on the background (would one consider DirectX part of Win32, seeing how it's COM?). So, personally, I'm glad Edge won't be using UWP.
- UWP did have these problems you mentioned before Windows 10 1709, however, after 1709 all performance related issues were gone.
Now I'm using Windows 10 1903, and I cannot even see the initialization process in most UWP such as Edge, calculator, settings and etc.
Although UWP used to have very bad experience, its experience now has been improved a lot and better than WPF, and the design of UWP is also more modern than WPF.I totally agree with you hez2010
UWP experience got improved a lot. I'm on Windows 10 version 1909 and I haven't faced a problem with any UWP app since the update.
