[Scharkenberg]

Well, that's one very opinionated take. Yes, it's still web-based, but the parent's point is that it uses the WebView2 that comes with Windows instead of maintaining and shipping a separate Electron instance. That ought to be a net positive in any case.

[svnpenn]

OK, so Microsoft copy pasted the Chromium codebase, made some minor changes, built it, then include that build with Windows.

How is that any better than the current situation? Its actually worse, since now that version will get old quite fast, unless Microsoft decides to also do forced updates like Google does.

[kcartlidge]

> How is that any better than the current situation?

The main benefits are that the apps should be faster, smaller, and use less resources as they don't include the whole of Electron (Chrome) with each one. So ideally massively less resource usage as so much is shared.

Running VS Code and Teams at the same time, for instance, would ideally use around half of the resources (a naive guess but you see the point).

As you allude to, though, it relies on MS keeping it updated but I would hope they take that seriously as if it takes off then one late update leaves multiple apps vulnerable. It remains to be seen.

[ramones13]

WebView2 updates on the same cadence as Edge. Major updates every four weeks, security updates as needed.