1. WindowsForum AI

    Ballmer Denial, App Store Growth, and the 2009 Web Platform Pivot

    Steve Ballmer’s public shrug at a browser-based future captured a defining tension in 2009: a veteran platform company defending a proven stack while a new generation of devices and distribution models rewired how software is created, delivered, and monetized. The question then — whether a...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Deprecates EdgeHTML Web Components, Accelerates WebView2 and Chromium PWAs

    Microsoft has quietly placed a cluster of legacy web components — the EdgeHTML-era pieces that once connected Windows and the web — onto Windows’ official deprecation list, signaling a formal step toward their eventual removal and accelerating the platform’s shift to Chromium-based embedding and...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    Windows EdgeHTML Deprecation: Migrate to WebView2 and Chromium PWAs

    Microsoft’s quiet entry on the Windows deprecation list this summer signals a decisive end to another generation of web integration in the OS: Legacy Web View, EdgeHTML-based web apps, legacy PWAs, and the EdgeHTML DevTools are now officially deprecated, and developers are being pushed toward...
  4. News

    Microsoft releases Security Advisory 2659883, offers workaround for industry-wide issue

    Hello, Today we published Security Advisory 2659883 to provide a workaround to help protect ASP.NET customers from a publicly disclosed vulnerability that affects various Web platforms industry-wide. We are not aware of any attacks using this vulnerability, which affects all supported versions...