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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

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Buried 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…

No, it was built using WinUI2/UWP XAML. But one section ("Recommended") uses React Native (which on Windows is built on top of WinUI2/UWP XAML)

Re: Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI

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That has been Microsoft's gameplan for years. While Apple delivers, Microsoft promises it will deliver soon. And then it never happens.

How is Apple AI delivery going? Especially everything that was shown at WWDC 2024?

Lol yeah... unfortunately we're not living in the times anymore when Steve Jobs announced the Intel build of Mac OS X and then mentioned that he did the whole presentation on Intel. Now it's "coming with macOS 27". And then "27.1". Maybe.
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