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		close04 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop The reason was moving from the CE kernel to the NT kernel between WP7 and WP8. This was supposed to make developers’ lives much easier when porting Windows 8 apps. The minimum hardware requirement had to be bumped and old WP7 devices could never meet them.

hasperdi 11 days ago [–]

At the very least they could've created some kind of translation / compatibility layer, to ease the transition

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