{"id":144,"date":"2026-03-13T20:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.fruitbyte.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:36:27","slug":"windows-ui-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.fruitbyte.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Windows UI History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/microsoft-hasnt-had-a-coherent-gui-strategy-since-petzold\/\">https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/microsoft-hasnt-had-a-coherent-gui-strategy-since-petzold\/<\/a><br>Spoiler alert: It&#8217;s messy and disappointing if you&#8217;re a developer.<br>If you ever developed desktop apps for Windows, the first step would be a selection of UI framework, which in case of Windows is not so obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just remember a few: Win16\/32 API in C, MFC, ActiveX (and ATL), WinForms, WinUI, Silverlight\/Mono&#8230;<br>Microsoft never had a consistent approach to solving cross platform UI and letting 3rd party solutions like Delphi thrive in its ecosystem. That&#8217;s how we ended up with a slew inefficient and buggy Electron apps. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/microsoft-hasnt-had-a-coherent-gui-strategy-since-petzold\/Spoiler alert: It&#8217;s messy and disappointing if you&#8217;re a developer.If you ever developed desktop apps for Windows, the first step would be a selection of UI framework, which in case of Windows is not so obvious. Just remember a few: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.fruitbyte.com\/?p=144\"><em>Continue&nbsp;reading&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.fruitbyte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.fruitbyte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.fruitbyte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.fruitbyte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.fruitbyte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dev.fruitbyte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/dev.fruitbyte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.fruitbyte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.fruitbyte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.fruitbyte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}