Uwp is the futures of the windows platform.
No it isn't.
Unless you believe that the Future of the Windows platform is as an unpopular mobile phone operating system, not as a desktop monopoly.
I can state pretty definitively that that is not where MS wants to be in 5 years time.
Win32 is old, unwieldy, insecure and broken.
So is democracy, but to paraphrase Churchill
its still better than all the other alternatives.
Also UWA is completely designed for games...
It pretty self-evidently and demonstrably
isn't.
Also i have no idea what antitrust implications you are talking about.
If you can't see
any potential antitrust implications of a monopoly entirely changing direction so that it is the sole gatekeeper of a previously open system, I can only conclude that you are wilfully ignoring all arguments put forwards with your fingers in your ears going lalalala I can't hear you lalala, and as such are not particularly worth the effort of conversation.
Sorry.
The one good thing about Win32 usage right now is that enterprises do NOT (at all) utilize UWP/UWA. All enterprise software is Win32.
Yes, absolutely.
You'll also note that none of MS's own enterprise software is showing any indication of moving to a UAW model - if for no other reason than it puts an entire industry of Ms Authorised volume key licence resellers out of business, and they will be recommending their corporate clients pivot to OSX or Linux long before they let MS disrupt a key revenue stream.
I don't know what you are trying to say. We couldn't have a discussion like this in the first place if we didn't distinguish between the technical features/limitations of UWAs and the sales practices of UWAs in a meaningful way, i.e. in a way that talking about the one is different to talking about the other.
I mean that for the purposes of this discussion, there is no meaningful difference bwtween saying "You can only buy UWAs from the Windows Store" and "UWAs are only installable from the Windows Store".
The arguments put forward are identical, the nature of whether the software is purchased or not is mostly irrelevant.
One thing I don't get is why people think that UWP and or Xbox should be now open to everyone to do whatever they please just because it is now on PC. It is still their platform thing or whatever. Just like how developers don't want MS to tell them ow to run their thing why does everyone want to tell Ms how to run their Xbox platform.
I don't believe anyone with strong opinions against UWAs has had much to say on the topic of how the Xbox 'should be'.
I don't believe the people with strong opinions about UWAs actually give a shit about the Xbox to be blunt.