What if you are building your own engine… will you still go with an exe? Why should people trust your no-name-exe to do their system no harm?īuilding exe seems like a no brainer if you are building your game with 3rd party commercial engines, because that is the reason why we use'em. Instead of getting featured on the MsStore, you'd have to do your own advertisement. You'll have to do you own installer, updater, uninstaller and crack-proof. You'd need to support much older APIs and do catch ups. If you are building application… go for exe? Are you sure? 1. So, say if you are a freshman or startup… Tbh, no one does, not even Google or Apple esp after the transition. OEM will only make win10 desktop or NB, HW providers will stop supporting older Windows eventually and MS's not going to re-support older Windows. The transition might be slow when you compare Windows PCs with Smart Phones, but the number of machine running older Windows will only go lesser and lesser YoY. Although this is an old article, and it's for Android dev but the principle of choosing min/max-API is the same., new features, bug fixes and security patches will only be in the newer API.So, don't expect your 5-10yo exe can run forever, API deprecates, plus… application will stop running faster than you think if you do anything low level. started your software business 10, 20 years ago and have actually been managing your codes carefully with api changes) and have your marketing channel, compile for older Windows is a no brainer.Did a quick search.
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