Thanks folks for the commentary.

I’m marking this as ‘Under Review’ and changing the title to better reflect the commentary in the thread (which differs from the title of the suggestion).

Thank you for the suggestion and commentary. We are not adding this capability in the 8.0 release as an API, but know that it is high on the consideration list for future Windows Phone releases.

Keep those suggestions and votes coming!

Thank you for the suggestion and commentary. The Store team continues to look at how to improve the app feedback/review experience (both for the consumer and the dev), and this suggestion is definitely something that is under consideration for a future Store release.

Keep those suggestions and votes coming!

Thank you for the suggestion and the spirited commentary on the this topic. While we understand that the Qt platform is important to many folks on this thread, we are not planning to add native support for the platform to the Windows Phone developer platform. That being said, we would be very supportive of the Qt community bringing a runtime to Windows Phone to allow Qt apps to run (and run well!) on the platform, very similar to the work that we’ve done to help bring other runtimes / engines such as Unity, Havok, PhoneGap, and Cocos2d. We feel that the work we’ve done to enable DirectX and the Windows Runtime could enable such a runtime, and would love to see the Qt platform come to Windows Phone.

Thank you for the suggestion and commentary on the OpenGL topic. While we understand that this capability is important to you, we are not planning to add this capability to the Windows Phone developer platform. It is felt that the underlying DirectX platform is sufficiently powerful on its own, and there is extensive guidance out there on bringing OpenGL to DirectX.