A new report shows that the built‑in Weather app in Windows 11 can consume more than 1 GB of memory, far higher than macOS’s Weather app, due to its WebView2‑based architecture and embedded Chromium engine, which burdens low‑end PCs with heavy RAM usage.
Microsoft renamed WinUI 3 to WinUI and is urging developers to abandon Electron, React Native, and WebView2‑based apps for Windows 11 in favor of high‑performance native applications built with WinUI, citing memory, startup, and UI consistency issues while promising long‑term stability and no disruptive framework changes.
After years of developer anticipation, Microsoft has officially announced that it will not publicly release WebView2 for Linux or macOS, confirming that the component remains Windows‑only despite Edge’s cross‑platform support, leaving developers to consider alternatives like Electron or Tauri.
The article examines how QQ unified its Windows, macOS, and Linux clients using the Electron‑based QQ NT architecture, contrasts this with Microsoft Teams’ recent shift from Electron to Edge WebView2 for better performance and lower memory usage, and discusses the trade‑offs developers face when selecting cross‑platform frameworks.
