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This seems... backwards. What integration could MS give to web apps that they aren't already? Microsoft replaced their help file format with HTML starting with

by cwyers 10y ago

This seems... backwards. What integration could MS give to web apps that they aren't already? Microsoft replaced their help file format with HTML starting with Vista. HTML and JS are first-class languages for building UWP apps. If anything, it's Netscape's lawsuit against MS for bundling IE that kept them from doing more to integrate web pages into the OS, not the moving of browser development in-house.

erikpukinskis 10y ago
Start menu integration, USB device access, graphics and sound APIs, notifications... Just look at the Windows APIs there are a wealth of things Microsoft doesn't want in browsers if they can avoid it. Well... there are people on the browser team trying their best, but the resource constraints keep investment where it needs to be to protect Windows and Office licensing.
- cwyers 10y ago
  > Start menu integration, USB device access, graphics and sound APIs, notifications... You can get all that through UWP, though, can't you?
  - WorldMaker 10y ago
    You can even get access to all of that from a webpage, if you know how to ask. [1] [1] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/hosted-web-apps https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/hosted...