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cheschire on Jan 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is the madness ever going to end?

Teams moved to Edge instead of Electron. Your point still stands though. Not sure why they decided this was the way.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/teams...

int_19h on Jan 12, 2022 [–]

Because they already have a codebase that uses HTML for UI, and a team that's proficient in it?

It's also worth remembering that HTML UI is technically "native" on Windows since Win8, where HTML/JS was one of the three stacks supported by all the new WinRT stuff - and, indeed, the one most heavily pushed.

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