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Can someone explain exactly who this targets? Outside of Microsoft (including Office), who actually develops native windows apps which would use this any more?
by WhyNotHugo 7y ago
Can someone explain exactly who this targets?
Outside of Microsoft (including Office), who actually develops native windows apps which would use this any more?
- Things like games or steam don't use native+OS-specific UI.
- Internal company software (including finance, etc) seems to always be web-based.
- Tools like slack, etc all seem to be Electron.
Any "off-the-shelf app" will probably want something that's cross platform -- I don't think anyone targets "windows only" any more, right?
- alkonaut 7y agoI’m guessing 90 or 95% of enterprise desktop apps (trading, cad, Point-of-sale, medical, ...) is windows like they always were. Sure, a lot is moving from the desktop because it should be webapps, but few companies outside a very small niche (those that make apps for broad markets of consumers like Spotify or Slack) worry about cross platform. The exception is and always was media creation, where Mac always had a foothold. But for every normal boring enterprise out there, so long as every customer is a business where everyone runs windows, that’s your target.