Why bother integrating it into the operating system itself then? That's also a lot of work for something that people are forced to install anyways.

Or you can just pitch proper integration as a Windows 11 feature, to give companies another incentive to upgrade

Is it all that integrated besides being pre-downloaded?

These are trillion dollar companies, I'm sure they can afford to lead the software industry for the greater good.

What 'greater good' can possibly be achieved by having to literally write the same app 5 different times?

You have work to do. And you get paid. No work - you're fired.

They could at least be trying to use the native multi-platform technologies they have bought/developed, like Xamarin or MAUI.

Going through the sunk cost of making 5 different GUI's and maybe wrapping some syscalls/API for the same 90% core app, resulting in minimal resource usage. It's the correct computerscientific approach and companies like Microsoft can (and should) commit to it. Breaking changes nowadays are too few and far between.

I don't think RAM conservation is high on anyone's list of initiatives to improve the world. The resource consumption of Electron is mostly of interest to computer scientists who like to see how small and efficient they can make something. But in this case, it does not really matter.

No. It also matters to the users of the laptop and to the people who have to buy it, as using too much RAM can lead to slowness due to swapping and can make older laptops unusable.

It's basically having a third-party forcing programmed obsolescence at your device.

> The resource consumption of Electron is mostly of interest to computer scientists who like to see how small and efficient they can make something. But in this case, it does not really matter.

It matters to sysadmins. Some people need to also work on the computer and when Teams uses all memory they will close it.