XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-11

On 23/07/2025 12:13 am, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 03:23:41 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:23:32 +1000, Daniel70 wrote:

Seems to me, if you are going to add all the Variants of Linux
together to come up with your "about 23%' then you could add all
your Windows Variants (10 + 11 only) together as well .... which
gives you 31% .... so still more than the Linux Variants!!

But not much more. If you put it that way, it makes even more stark
the fact that Windows has completely lost any dominance it may ever
have had in the computing landscape.

I wonder if this is part of a trend: WhatsApp is abandoning its
Windows-native app, in favour of a browser-based one for that platform
<https://www.theverge.com/news/710509/whatsapp-windows-app-web-wrapper-changes>.

Since when has the Windows market been too small to justify the
development of a platform-native app?

Since now, I guess ...

AFAICT, it's not a "browser-based app", but a packaging of its web-app into a desktop app, i.e. the app doesn't run in the browser.

And AFAICT, it's still "a platform-native app", because it uses - i.e. depends on - Microsoft's Edge WebView2 technology, which AFAIK is not platform-independent.

Hmmm!! This is reminding me of MicroSofts suggestion that Win98 HAD to
have IE installed .... because it was also used as the 'File Explorer'
or some such .... until 98Lite showed it WASN'T compulsory. ;-P
--
Daniel70

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