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Microsoft Project Reunion unifies the existent APIs
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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In March 2020, Microsoft crossed the line of1 billion devicesrunningWindows 10. And we’re talking about active devices.
And now, with the Coronavirus pandemy, according to Microsoft, users are spending more than 4 trillion minutes onWindows 10a month, a 75% increase year-over-year.
It’s really easy to understand why Microsoft wants to make it easier fordevelopersto create more apps forWindows 10.
Project Reunion unifies theWin32 and UWP
The whole big thing about Project Union is to unify access to the existing Win32 and UWP APIs and take them out from theoperating system.
We’re bringing together the combined power of Win32 and UWP, sodevelopersno longer have to choose, because we’re unifying these existing APIs, decoupling them from theOS. And so thedevelopersare confident that as they use these APIs, they will work across all ofWindows.
And Project Reunion allowsdevelopersto not only modernize theirappso it runs efficiently, locally, on a physicalWindowsmachine, but it can also deliver a great experience when streamed from the cloud.
And so you’re now runningWindows, not only onWindows, but iOS and Android and Mac and Linux from the cloud.
, explained Kevin Gallo,Vice President,WindowsDeveloper Platform at Microsoftduring Microsoft Build 2020.
Project Reunion components
Right now, Project Reunion has only two components. One is WinUI 3 Preview 1, the latest preview version of Microsoft’s user interface framework forWindows.
The other is a new preview of WebView2, which allows thedevelopersto embed a Chromium-based WebView into Windows Forms, WPF and UWP/WinUI 3 apps.
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Claudiu Andone
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His abrupt interest in computers started when he saw the first Home Computer as a kid. However, his passion for Windows and everything related became obvious when he became a sys admin in a computer science high school.
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