Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
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Re: Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
#2Buried in this announcement about Windows 11 improvements is a fascinating admission: the Windows 11 Start menu has been built using React this entire time. Microsoft is now migrating it to their native WinUI3 framework to improve performance and reduce interaction latency.
This explains a lot about why the Start menu has felt sluggish compared to Windows 10.
The React → WinUI migration is the most technically interesting detail imo.
Re: Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
#3Buried in this announcement about Windows 11 improvements is a fascinating admission: the Windows 11 Start menu has been built using React this entire time. Microsoft is now migrating it to their native WinUI3 framework to improve performance and reduce interaction latency. This explains a lot about why the Start menu has felt sluggish compared to Windows 10. The React → WinUI migration is the most technically intere…
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Re: Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
#4WinUI is still a bloated pig compared to Win32.
If MS really wants its users back, many of which have left for Linux and Mac, it should seriously consider going back to the Win7 era UI, or at least restore the Windows Classic theme.
Re: Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
#5Buried in this announcement about Windows 11 improvements is a fascinating admission: the Windows 11 Start menu has been built using React this entire time. Microsoft is now migrating it to their native WinUI3 framework to improve performance and reduce interaction latency. This explains a lot about why the Start menu has felt sluggish compared to Windows 10. The React → WinUI migration is the most technically intere…
It's been known for a while - at least 2024 - that its react.
Re: Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
#6Coca Cola famously improved its position when New Coke flopped and it reintroduced the original flavor as "Coca Cola Classic."
If you can't make it better, make it worse, it seems.
Re: Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
#7Lords be praised. Microsoft is bringing back native performance .
Re: Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
#8How does this happen? How do you build a fundamental OS control in react?
Re: Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
#9How does this happen? How do you build a fundamental OS control in react?
This is what I'm wondering. How dysfunctional is microsoft that they shipped a react-based start menu? It reads like satire, "Windows 11 is so bad that even microsoft doesn't use native controls".
Re: Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
#10How does this happen? How do you build a fundamental OS control in react?
No one left who can use whatever half deprecated native actually-not-that-native windows ui framework is currently undead state of the art and not enough examples in the llm‘s to vibe code it.
That leaves „web technologies“.