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

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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