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> "New Outlook" is an entirely new codebase (yup... targeting Electron). Woah really? Do they actually use regular chrome-based Electron or do they have a vers
by __jonas 3y ago
> "New Outlook" is an entirely new codebase (yup... targeting Electron).
Woah really? Do they actually use regular chrome-based Electron or do they have a version based on Edge or some Edge WebView system? That's pretty surprising to hear.
- DaiPlusPlus 3y agoMicrosoft was a relative early adopter of Electron - this isn't anything new: Skype, VS Code, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Storage Explorer, MS Teams, GitHub Desktop, Yammer Desktop - they're all Microsoft products that are now based on Electron. My understanding was that the only reason those teams opted for Electron was because they intended to target Linux and/or macOS and/or browser-based users, and didn't want to have to maintain different codebases for each platform (of course this means they ended-up with a non-native UI look-and-feel on all platforms now...). But all of those products I mentioned above definitely needed to target Linux and browser-based users, so I can't get too angry about that move. ...but doing the same for Outlook, a long-time anchor-product for enterprises to buy-into Windows and Office, feels off to me. This does not bode well for the Windows platform as-a-whole if Microsoft isn't even targeting it anymore.
- DaiPlusPlus 3y agoUPDATE: HN won't let me edit the above post, but I'm wrong about it using Electron, it's actually WebView2.
- ramones13 3y agoIt's not Electron, it's using Edge WebView2 - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview... If you have it installed you can see the msedgewebview2.exe processes in Task Manager.