From a technology standpoint, no it's not. UWP is very much closer to the Win32 roots than .NET ever was. UWP is COM+ basically, with a thin wrapper.
From a marketing, developer's and practical point of view, I agree with you 100%. They bet so much on UWP, yet their footsteps falter the last mile. UWP is like running an Android emulator on your PC - you have 2 different worlds at once. Really weird and it must confuse "normal" users much more than us who know a lot about both the history and the technology.
From a marketing, developer's and practical point of view, I agree with you 100%. They bet so much on UWP, yet their footsteps falter the last mile. UWP is like running an Android emulator on your PC - you have 2 different worlds at once. Really weird and it must confuse "normal" users much more than us who know a lot about both the history and the technology.