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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by AlotOfReading on Saturday June 20, 2026 @03:09PM (#48612017)
Microsoft has written more application development frameworks than you can shake a stick at. They've also failed to gain traction with virtually all of them, even internally.
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by contextfree on Saturday June 20, 2026 @11:22PM (#48615374)
WinUI2/UWP was heavily adopted internally though?* Most Windows shell UI and built-in apps use it at this point.

* (at least within the Windows organization; maybe not so much in other parts of Microsoft)

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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by happymellon on Sunday June 21, 2026 @03:48AM (#48616617)
Leadership is weak.

As an operating system vendor, it should be a dismissable offence to refuse to use the OS standard APIs. Your products need to be the standard that other try to imitate.

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