Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2

Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by Barrin92 on Saturday June 26, 2021 @10:21AM (#27642109)

I think this has long stopped being a design goal. The OS is not the primary platform any more which everything orients around, it's an access point to the web. Products are determining design language now.

People don't expect Google to look 'like Windows' just because they're on a Windows OS, they expect Google to look like Material apps across all platforms. There's not 'windows spotify' or 'android spotify' but they expect the app to look the feel the same everywhere, and in that way companies actually benefit from using Electron.

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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by pseudalopex on Saturday June 26, 2021 @06:28PM (#27646545)

In my experience the people who decide these things talk about branding. Not user expectations. Phone, tablet, and desktop apps have different interfaces anyway. And few people use more than 1 desktop OS and 1 mobile OS

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