Windows 11 is finally ditching web apps. Microsoft is doubling down on WinUI 3 to deliver a faster, fully native, and highly ...

Most apps on a modern Windows 11 PC, including Microsoft’s first-party ones, are actually web apps. That's a major problem, because web apps use more memory and run more slowly than their truly native ...

Web apps are lightweight and platform-independent. There are various methods to create them on macOS: using Safari’s native support, third-party tools like Fluid, Flotato, or Applicationize, and Unite ...

Just like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge gets new major releases roughly every four weeks. While Chrome 106 arrived yesterday, Edge 106 is yet to become available. Ahead of its release, Microsoft has ...

When does it make more sense to develop a native desktop app, or an Electron-powered web UI app? We break it down for you. When we talk about a “desktop application,” we generally mean a program that ...

Ferdium makes it easier to page through my "social" apps, instead of having a ton of open windows ...

If you’ve recently updated WhatsApp on your Windows machine and thought, “Why does this feel slower?”, you’re not alone. Meta has officially retired the native Windows app and replaced it with a ...

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Progressive web apps on Windows look more like native Windows apps than ever before. Thanks to a new feature that Microsoft just announced, the Window Controls Overlay, developers can now customize ...

Web apps made Windows slower, clunkier, and less compelling. Microsoft is finally scrambling to fix it—it's about time. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help ...