This looks quite promising. What piqued my interest was the section that said "Universal apps built for Windows 10 shine on Microsoft Surface Hub and scale to the large screen."
Looking further into Universal Apps for Windows 10 leads to http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/03/02/a-first-loo... which details the vision for the platform. That page mentions: "... Windows 10 will make it easy for you to create a Windows app that packages your website for publishing to the Store. Once installed, your website can update and call Universal APIs from JavaScript, creating a more engaging user experience."
Could someone more familiar with Universal Apps shed more light on this? It sounds interesting, but I'm trying to figure out if this is similar to Chrome Webstore Apps or Hyrbid Mobile Apps wrapped in Web UI's (e.g. Cordova).
A web developer can create a package for a website that is deployed to the store. Each time a user opens this app it's loading the content from your web server - so different from a native / html wrapper. Furthermore your JS on your live site, when the site is run from this app, can do something like: if (Windows) { ...call native APIs... }.
This likely also means you can use iOS objective C or the android API for apps on the display since they are all supported on Win10 now.
Looking further into Universal Apps for Windows 10 leads to http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/03/02/a-first-loo... which details the vision for the platform. That page mentions: "... Windows 10 will make it easy for you to create a Windows app that packages your website for publishing to the Store. Once installed, your website can update and call Universal APIs from JavaScript, creating a more engaging user experience."
Could someone more familiar with Universal Apps shed more light on this? It sounds interesting, but I'm trying to figure out if this is similar to Chrome Webstore Apps or Hyrbid Mobile Apps wrapped in Web UI's (e.g. Cordova).