> "New Outlook" is an entirely new codebase (yup... targeting Electron).
Woah really? Do they actually use regular chrome-based Electron or do they have a version based on Edge or some Edge WebView system? That's pretty surprising to hear.
Woah really? Do they actually use regular chrome-based Electron or do they have a version based on Edge or some Edge WebView system? That's pretty surprising to hear.
My understanding was that the only reason those teams opted for Electron was because they intended to target Linux and/or macOS and/or browser-based users, and didn't want to have to maintain different codebases for each platform (of course this means they ended-up with a non-native UI look-and-feel on all platforms now...). But all of those products I mentioned above definitely needed to target Linux and browser-based users, so I can't get too angry about that move.
...but doing the same for Outlook, a long-time anchor-product for enterprises to buy-into Windows and Office, feels off to me. This does not bode well for the Windows platform as-a-whole if Microsoft isn't even targeting it anymore.
If you have it installed you can see the msedgewebview2.exe processes in Task Manager.