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It's still so weird to me that Microsoft - who has their own, now modern, native UI framework for Windows - barely uses it in any of their own applications, instead more and more relying on ~Electron~ Edge WebView2, barely following their own design language. Do they even want people to use Windows?
They finally accepted the web as the platform after all these years...
I'm like 90% sure this requires edge to be installed, even though the EU mandated that they make edge uninstallable. So that might be their game here.
You can install WebView2 separately without the Edge GUI actually.
https://developer.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-edge/webview2/?form=MA13LH#download
They don’t even use the windows built in notification system… baffles me every time.
Sounds like Google
It's weird they use webviews given they maintain the desktop port of React Native (https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/) which feels a lot better than a web view since it actually uses native UI components rather than just embedding a web browser.
It's gotten to the point where Apple's newer Windows apps (like Apple Music) look better than Microsoft's, because Apple are actually building native WinUI apps.
This is the same Microsoft that has consistently delivered a better Office suite (including Outlook) on macOS than Windows for almost 20 years now. It’s like they are afraid of their own technology or something.