Microsoft was a relative early adopter of Electron - this isn't anything new: Skype, VS Code, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Storage Explorer, MS Teams, GitHub Desk

Microsoft 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.