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I believe Teams just switched to Edge WebView instead of Electron. The point remains that native applications are starting to only be specialty applications like games, CAD/CAM, Creative Suite, etc where you need a lot of access to compute power.

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I think we will see more web based versions of those speciality applications. There is already an Autocad running in browser.

You know, I forgot about WebGPU. If you have GPU Compute support I could see a full featured web version being technically possible. AutoCAD Web is really limited compared to the native application.

The Web is just fulfilling Java's 'Write Once Run Everywhere' promise.

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