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Microsoft never learns, IT admins rage as a new OneDrive app invades Windows 11 and keeps coming back when you remove it (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world -1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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, https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui , is react = web
[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
  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.
[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world -1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
  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 https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/21/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-start-menu-performance-boost-shift-to-winui-from-web-based-components/
  4. It's a UI library for... Drumroll... WebApps!
[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

You really need to ask someone who knows what React is about React lol. It is not a UI for web apps.

Using “web based components” doesn’t make something a web app 🤣.

Is steam a web app?

Microsoft also made and use this……

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-environment/javascript/react-native-for-windows

[–] T156@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Is it actually doing it in-device? Given that it's attached to OneDrive, I was rather under the impression that it was just offloading the processing to their servers.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn’t really matter where it’s doing what. It’s displaying it all on device. It’s caching stuff on device.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It does matter if you don't want your shit in the cloud.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Why are you using onedrive if you don’t want your stuff in the cloud?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 5 hours ago

I don't use it because I know they're going to be nosing around whatever I put in there. If it was truly just file storage I would consider it but they can't keep their grubby hands off our data. My comment regarding this photos app is the same idea. If it could be used 100% locally and wasn't also being used to train some AI model or whatever other bullshit they're doing with it then it would be fine. People have a right to know how their data is being used.

[–] late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Shill harder, we need to deliver more shareholder value

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world -1 points 19 hours ago

Shill? Explaining why something isn’t a “web app” is shilling now? Geez you commies are getting really loose with your definitions now.