Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript

Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet » Wed, Jun 13, 2018, 10:06 PM UTC

wtetzner wrote: post #395

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #356

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The way I see it, even saying that this is the goal is bad news. It's basically an official admission that Microsoft intends to abandon the Desktop OS entirely. Windows 10's bullshit isn't just some bump in the road that would eventually be recognized as the bad idea that it is, it's a deliberate move to push people off of Windows Desktop and on to Windows tablets, smartphones, and a desktop web kiosk. Windows as a p…

> Windows as a personal computing Desktop OS would be completely dead, and given the state of the alternatives that means that personal computing desktops are also dead. Maybe, or maybe it would open up an opportunity for more competition. Who knows? Maybe the year of the Linux desktop is still coming :)

Post by walshemj » Wed, Jun 13, 2018, 10:15 PM UTC

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Mail is one of the key parts of the internet no offence you don't want someone straight out some boot camp of dubious provenance having any input into what language or the spec of a MUA or MTA. Any new developers on this need to have experience working with email standards and a good knowledge of C++ / C not some fracking scripting language! And as some one who used to do international interconnect I think I have som…

This is literally the same argument of the tweet's first poster (to which the linked tweet is a reply). This is just simply not true. I know many people who make mail apps for some big big companies. They have CS degrees and would admit they suck at C++ (I wouldn't even mention C) but they are great at Python

Post by vitorgrs » Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 12:51 AM UTC

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Oh it gets better. If you look at the appx package names for "Groove music" and a couple others they're still Microsoft.Zune prefixed

Appx package names seem almost entirely uninteresting and most consumers will never look at them. Why would anyone bother changing them? Disclosure: Microsoft employee, but not on Groove (or anything related to appx packages for that matter)

Post by contextfree » Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 1:01 AM UTC

4ad wrote: post #369

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I’m an engineer in Office. This is not the case. The desktop app’s are fully native, and will remain so. They utilize React Native for a few components, but otherwise are written in C & C++.

Thanks for clarifying this nonsense. So, what the hell was this guy tweeting about?

Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet » Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 2:32 AM UTC

wilsonnb2 wrote: post #268

DougN7 wrote: post #98

Ugggh :( I miss my old Outlook 2013. Outlook 2016 is so slow it can’t keep up wirh my typing. I thought it already was javascript. Guess it will be even slower still. Super! (not)

If I'm typing a sentence that I am very familiar with, I can get up to 95 WPM and Outlook 2016 has no problems keeping up. Perhaps it's your computer and not Outlook.