Microsoft never learns, IT admins rage as a new OneDrive app invades Windows 11 and keeps coming back when you remove it

Unlike traditional web apps, OneDrive Photos is actually quite well built. It has a Windows 11-like Acrylic design for the context menu and does not take up a huge amount of resources, as RAM usage stays under 1GB

Excuse me, a photo gallery that takes 1gb of RAM, especially in this economy, doesn’t seem “quite well built”.

This fucking web app wrappers, Picasa had 100x more features while using 50x less resources

It’s not a “web app”. It’s a native Windows app. A photo library app that indexes every single photo so you can search them with natural language like “green shirt”, group people by facial recognition, and edit photos, using under 1GB of RAM is impressive.

If the “native” Windows app it’s running on a dedicated browser and coded with web tech, it’s still a web app even if it’s an .exe

Did you know that Picasa could still group people by facial recognition in windows XP with 1 gb of ram in TOTAL? (Clarifying: 1gb to the whole system, not only a single app)

And are you sure that the indexing is running locally? Because it’s called “onedrive photos”, not “windows photos”, so they can totally do the indexing on the cloud.

It’s a native Windows app. What makes you think it’s “coded with web tech”? Do you know it’s just a web wrapper?

some of the reasons why it’s not a native app:

1. it uses 1000 mb of ram instead of 50 mb
2. if you install binisoft windows firewall control, it wants to get permission to “Microsoft Edge WebView2” when you open it
3. all the other microshit apps like clipchamp, new outlook, teams, the start menu, the widgets, are all webapps. It’s like they fired anyone that knew how to write code and replaced them with copilot
4. the library, github.com/microsoft/fluentui , is react = web

1. Doesn’t even come close to proving anything.
2. Proves nothing. Is edge a web app?
3. The start menu is not a web app.
4. React does not mean web lol. React is a UI library.

1. If you do a native photo gallery and it uses 1000 mb of RAM just to showing 5 screenshots, that means you’re a grossly incompetent coder and that’s even worse
2. I can’t believe you don’t know this, but Edge is a web browser, used to show web pages.
3. The start menu is a web app and Microsoft itself even admitted it’s the reason it totally sucks and it will be rewritten native windowslatest.com/…/microsoft-confirms-windows-11…
4. It’s a UI library for… Drumroll… WebApps!