Re:Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs
by pjmlp on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:46AM
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As someone that decided to go back into native development in 2014, and then after how the whole WinRT/UWP mess was managed, and still is being managed in WinUI 3.0/WinAppSDK land, returned into distributed systems, yeah it looks like it.
Go watch a couple of community sessions, or the Github issues, it looks like a quite underresourced set of teams, still living in the days of "we do everything in C++ with no tools".
Having a designer for WinUI 3.0 was never a priority, a GUI framework!
Re:Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs
by n8cpdx on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:47AM
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Outlook for Mac is a dream. The animations, design, great support for keyboards, focus mode integration, native toolbar UX, and menu bar app are almost enough to make me think there’s a future for desktop-native software.
I don’t know how the MBA types let that team get away with making such a great work of software.
It’s weird because on Windows they’re moving to just shipping the web version in an electron (or equivalent) wrapper.
Now you can run you legacy software also on Mac!
Which is funny because everybody I know that has worked with office on mac and windows says that the mac version is better...