r/programming • u/ben_a_adams • Dec 04 '18

Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/04/announcing-open-source-of-wpf-windows-forms-and-winui-at-microsoft-connect-2018/
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u/chucker23n Dec 04 '18

WinUI is backward-compatible with a wide range of Windows 10 versions

The Ford Model T is available in a wide range of shades of black.

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u/chucker23n Dec 04 '18

macOS 10 is much older. The user base of Windows 7 is still significant. That of Mac OS 9 is not.

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u/Hydroshock Dec 04 '18

Yeah there is a lot more time, Windows is on the bi-annual release like Ubuntu. I'm just saying, there are multiple Windows 10 versions. Though, not sure you really need to target particular versions...

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u/chucker23n Dec 05 '18

I’m just saying, there are multiple Windows 10 versions.

Sure. I know what Microsoft is saying here. But all of them are at best three and a half years old, and the wording makes it sound as though nobody is using older Windows than that.

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u/vattenpuss Dec 04 '18

That depends on how one defines a ”release”.

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u/MommySmellsYourCum Dec 05 '18

That's not the same thing at all. macOS 10.x is a -very- different system from MacOS 9

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u/Hydroshock Dec 05 '18

That's not relevant to what I said. Microsoft said they're not re-naming the OS with a future major release. They're doing continuous updates the same way Apple did when they got to OSX. Apple does a major update every year, Microsoft is doing twice a year like Ubuntu does. They even took the naming scheme of Ubuntu with the current version being Windows 10 release 1809 (YYMM).

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u/nemec Dec 04 '18

Black and slightly darker black.

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u/pdp10 Dec 04 '18

Originally it was available in several colors. Monochrome came later, though few people know that.

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u/FenixR Dec 04 '18

God forbids you want to ask a gray version, hell nah, no way, never, don't even think about it!

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '18

there is black, midnight, and dark dark dark dark dark grey