Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Squirrel is in beta

Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by sitepodmatt on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:00AM (#17265423)

Somewhat offtopic, but related - Any else remember Yahoo Messenger (new beta) being an evangelist for WPF in the mainstream? Which didn't pan out iirc, infact did any mainstream commercials apps, thus excluding internal LOBs launch, even make it on to WPF? ~2009

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Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by maxxxxx on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:12AM (#17265551)

Visual Studio started using WPF from 2010 on. It turned out not to be an exactly convincing example. It was slower than VS 2008 and lost a ton of features. Can't think of any other commercial app. MS certainly didn't bother porting anything to WPF.

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Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by setquk on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:23AM (#17265658)

Don’t forget that UWP is the bastard child of WPF

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Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by maxxxxx on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:27AM (#17265701)

And Silverlight and WinRT. I still don't understand why they couldn't keep developing WPF instead of shipping a new framework every 2 years.

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Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by bunderbunder on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:07AM (#17266153)

Pessimistic answer:

Ever seen that joke graphic with the org charts of various tech companies, where Microsoft's is a bunch of nodes with little hands sticking out and pointing guns at each other?

WPF was a product of the .NET team. WinRT was owned by the Windows team. The two have had a rivalry that's famous for producing collateral damage.

Optimistic answer:

WinRT was designed to be consumable from many languages and platforms, not just .NET. They preserved as much as they could (e.g., xaml), but you can't rewrite the core of a thing without a few growing pains.

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Re:Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Sq... by setquk on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:28AM (#17265719)

Typical MS roadmap schizophrenia. Honestly I maintain some WPF hanging out of the side of a product and I wish I had built it in winforms now.

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