By Mayank Parmar
Publication Date: 2025-12-13 17:25:00
You might have noticed that we’ve been very vocal about web-enshittification of Windows 11, especially after we found that Notification Center’s new Agenda view is powered by WebView2. Turns out, we’re going to see more web-based UI in Windows 11, but Microsoft says it’ll make complex web apps faster, especially apps like Outlook.
“Based on our own experience, we know that complex applications require complex architectures that sometimes rely on multiple windows, iframes, or worker threads,” Microsoft noted in a support document.
Microsoft is not going to encourage developers or its own in-house teams to move away from web apps. Instead, Microsoft is testing a new API called “Delayed Message Timing,” which, according to a GitHub listing spotted by Windows Latest, is a diagnostics feature for web apps.
It’s not supposed to directly make web apps faster like magic because it’s a “diagnostic” tool, but Microsoft insists it’ll allow…
