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I can't find any reason other than "we will only code things once and run everywhere". Considering the scale of users, a native client is a no brainer

For a while I have contemplated creating a lightweight native version of Teams. According to the Teams API it should be possible, I believe

It can simply be c#, no need to go any deeper. But it would be a huge boost in performance

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I would love ANY alternative to Microsoft's Teams app!

I'm working on a vanilla JS web app alternative if you're interested, OperCom. You can see its current status at [1] and keep updated at [2]

[1] https://blog.opercom.co.uk/posts/news-13-08-22/

[2] https://www.opercom.co.uk/contact

At this point you discover that there are at least three different options for C# UI, all of which have significant drawbacks. The performance of a WinForms Teams UI would be fantastic, though.

Agree on WinForms, but why wouldn't WPF also be fine? Granted it leaks a bit of memory here and there, but not much

Development of WPF was abandoned more than decade ago.

I thought WPF was the de facto current standard for Windows apps and everything else (MAUI etc) is too experimental and hardly promising

MS certainly is using WPF in some areas (Dynamics 365 client framework comes to mind)

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