Yet many reviews bashed WP for it
As long as they give is the Facebook app that is on Windows 8.1 I'm happy anything else is extra I would love for the changes menu to come to the phone but I'm hearing rumors they are getting rid of that. Maybe give us multiple desktops on the one as well? Out will be interesting for sure
Here are the concept I developed for windows 10 for phones
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Here are the concept I developed for windows 10 for phones
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While I understand/agree with your message in the post, I do have to point out two things.
Silverlight is only available to protect existing coding investments. Most devs don't foresee any further advancements and new efforts should be WinRT. Running existing Silverlight apps is easy enough to do on Win10 but don't expect too many additions to its APIs.
Also yes, there is a lot of overlap of code between Windows and WP but not as much as you think. The 80% figure is for public APIs like you mentioned but they're implemented differently between the two platforms underneath. The OSes are actually still quite different while exposing similar APIs for devs' convenience. Not hugely different but not as closely converged like the public APIs are.
With Win10, this will no longer be the case.
One of My biggest concerns about Windows 10 was about the continuity from Windows Phone 8.1 for developers, ergo the public APIs, Microsoft really has to tread lightly when it comes to its developers (you don't want to upset them / give them more work). Under the surface, I don't really mind what Microsoft does with the operating system code itself, so long as there are less bottleneck in the operation of the OS, and performance fluctuations. Long story short as you stated, so long as Microsoft protect the investments into the code of Windows Phone 8.1 I'm happy to have Windows 10.
I'm a bit anxious right now because of the hint towards replacing Windows Phone, and being left in limbo to wonder about what is going to happed next for existing Windows Phones.