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Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-major-improvements-announced-movable-taskbar-less-ads-reduced-copilot-better-performance-2026
14•steviey19•1h ago

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steviey19•1h ago
Buried in this announcement about Windows 11 improvements is a fascinating admission: the Windows 11 Start menu has been built using React this entire time. Microsoft is now migrating it to their native WinUI3 framework to improve performance and reduce interaction latency.

This explains a lot about why the Start menu has felt sluggish compared to Windows 10.

The React → WinUI migration is the most technically interesting detail imo.

evanjrowley•1h ago
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stephenr•1h ago
It's been known for a while - at least 2024 - that its react.
alsetmusic•35m ago
Yeah, I know about that and I'm a Mac / Linux guy.
userbinator•1h ago
WinUI is still a bloated pig compared to Win32.

If MS really wants its users back, many of which have left for Linux and Mac, it should seriously consider going back to the Win7 era UI, or at least restore the Windows Classic theme.

trimethylpurine•1h ago
Coca Cola famously improved its position when New Coke flopped and it reintroduced the original flavor as "Coca Cola Classic."

If you can't make it better, make it worse, it seems.

khelavastr•1h ago
Lords be praised. Microsoft is bringing back native performance .
idiotsecant•1h ago
How does this happen? How do you build a fundamental OS control in react?
solid_fuel•58m ago
This is what I'm wondering. How dysfunctional is microsoft that they shipped a react-based start menu? It reads like satire, "Windows 11 is so bad that even microsoft doesn't use native controls".
userbinator•41m ago
MS also made one of the most hated IM and audiovisual meeting applications with web tech, replacing a previously (not great but much better) native one: Teams.
Traubenfuchs•54m ago
No one left who can use whatever half deprecated native actually-not-that-native windows ui framework is currently undead state of the art and not enough examples in the llm‘s to vibe code it.

That leaves „web technologies“.

Panzerschrek•53m ago
Why it was necessary to rewrite start menu in React at all? Why rewriting what works fine?
userbinator•47m ago
Developers trying to justify their employment and pad their resumes.
oreally•20m ago
Resume-driven development making people justify their jobs.

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