[Enhancement] Look into lowering our UWP minimum requirement to 10240

[PureWeen]

Summary

On the heels of getting this PR merged #7079 should we go even lower!!

Justification here

#7079 (comment)

We use LTSC versions in the area of business/industrial applications such as kiosks, medical equipment, Point of Sales, advertising monitors, ...

LTSC versions are not automatically updated and are supported for 10 years. They do not contain Microsoft Store and applications installed by default. More details: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/LTSC-What-is-it-and-when-should-it-be-used/ba-p/293181

In my opinion, the problem is not so much the support of LTSC versions, it's rather the backwards compatibility of Xamarin.Forms with the different versions of Windows 10. We can still target iOS 7 or Android 4.4 with the latest version of Xamarin.Forms, why we can't target a version of Windows 10 that was released less than 3 years ago (Build 15063 released April 2017)? Why we can't target the first version released in 2015?

I think the main problem comes in the support of the .NET Standard versions in UWP applications, they require an update of Windows. Now there is the same problem with .NET Standard 2.1: dotnet/standard#1567

With back support of .NET Standard 1.4 it would again be possible to target the Build 10240, why not do it?

[YZahringer]

This will be fixed with .NET 5.0 and new WinRT APIs support?
Support of .NET 5.0 is planned in Xamarin.Forms 5.0?

[YZahringer]

Related #12112

[mhrastegari]

Any news :((((

[jfversluis]

This will not happen anymore for Xamarin.Forms. If this is still important to you, make sure to check the .NET MAUI repo and see if it's already on the roadmap or open an issue with a detailed feature request. Thanks!

[jfversluis]

Hm I see my standard reply might not cut it here as this is not applicable to .NET MAUI I guess 😅

But this won't be happening for Forms I think. Too much risk of breaking things here.