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by anon23432343 938 days ago
Is this MSFT giving up on creating a good OS?

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...

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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!

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.