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>>pjmlp+(OP)
Yay, it's the latest attempt at Project Centennial!

(For context, Microsoft has been trying for 7 years various methods to get developers to please package their apps in some way. Almost nobody has ever bit - to the point the Microsoft Store only has been having some recent success by promising packaging isn't required.)

https://petri.com/microsofts-project-centennial-unsuccessful...

>>gjsman+n5
If Microsoft would make it easy and free to package apps (and without combining it with sandboxes) all developers would do it.

>>wvenab+t9
It's a black art (e.g. Windows Installer). But these days using open tools it's not so bad. A desktop app can be built early with only free microsoft tools and really well packaged with free non-microsoft (ok microsoft-adjacent) tools like Squirrel. That wouldn't make them isolated in the sense of store apps, however.