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Re:macOS Tahoe by AlexandrB on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @01:43PM (#45265375)
You can't blame this all on backwards compatibility. Microsoft can't just stick to one successor technology and keeps obsoleting every attempt after a few years. With that approach, of course no one is going to move over.
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Re:macOS Tahoe by cosmic_cheese on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:30PM (#45265988)
That’s one issue, but another is that they don’t make into successors full replacements. They’ve stuck to WinAppSDK aka WinUI for a while now, but it’s missing such basic elements as a datagrid/tableview which makes it difficult to take seriously as a desktop UI framework.
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Re:macOS Tahoe by ryandrake on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @05:32PM (#45268380)
Also, they didn't even migrate their own internal dialogs with each replacement. You can still uncover dialog styles all the way back to Windows 95-style if you poke around Windows 11 long enough. Whenever they came out with yet another successor, they haphazardly migrated a handful of P1 components and then called it a day.
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