Is Microsoft Ruining games with UWP restrictions?

As of Windows 8.0, a new form of windows application was created. These applications are known as UWP, or Universal Windows Platform, applications. UWP, now UAP–Universal Application Platform–on windows 10. The idea behind UWP and UAP is great; if you write an application for the UAPlatform, then it will be able to run on any system on the platform, from Xbox one Windows 10 down to Tablet’s running Windows 10.

The problem, however, is that to do this, you must limit the apis that are accessible, simply because minified versions of windows running on tablet or other smaller systems must have a smaller footprint, or else the system won’t have the resources to handle the applications. But, by sandboxing the system so it will run on tablets, forces the application to run with limited resources on a faster, more powerful system like a home-built PC

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/02/microsoft-needs-to-stop-forcing-console-like-restrictions-on-windows-store-pc-games/

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