Re: The great app pissing contest...
> This is tosh. Almost every app that was written for WP7 ran on WP8 unchanged - I know because I switched phones at the time and installed almost everything I had on the new phone.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/jj206947(v=vs.105).aspx#BKMK_BreakingchangesinWindowsPhone8