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by ramones13 1409 days ago
You should verify the original commenters statements hold true in your target environment(s). Office has started heavily relying on WebView2, any enterprise using Office should have WebView2 updating working properly. Ditto for Windows 11.

Not sure what time period the original commenter is referring to, this story has developed quite a bit over the past year, even into last month - https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2022/06/27/delivering-th...

Edit: and if your alternative is Electron, WV2’s fixed runtime is the same concept as Electron in a static Chromium version - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/con...