Unlike traditional web apps, OneDrive Photos is actually quite well built. It has a Windows 11-like Acrylic design for the context menu and does not take up a huge amount of resources, as RAM usage stays under 1GB
Excuse me, a photo gallery that takes 1gb of RAM, especially in this economy, doesn’t seem “quite well built”.
This fucking web app wrappers, Picasa had 100x more features while using 50x less resources
It’s not a “web app”. It’s a native Windows app. A photo library app that indexes every single photo so you can search them with natural language like “green shirt”, group people by facial recognition, and edit photos, using under 1GB of RAM is impressive.
If the “native” Windows app it’s running on a dedicated browser and coded with web tech, it’s still a web app even if it’s an .exe
Did you know that Picasa could still group people by facial recognition in windows XP with 1 gb of ram in TOTAL? (Clarifying: 1gb to the whole system, not only a single app)
And are you sure that the indexing is running locally? Because it’s called “onedrive photos”, not “windows photos”, so they can totally do the indexing on the cloud.
It’s a native Windows app. What makes you think it’s “coded with web tech”? Do you know it’s just a web wrapper?
some of the reasons why it’s not a native app:
- it uses 1000 mb of ram instead of 50 mb
- if you install binisoft windows firewall control, it wants to get permission to “Microsoft Edge WebView2” when you open it
- all the other microshit apps like clipchamp, new outlook, teams, the start menu, the widgets, are all webapps. It’s like they fired anyone that knew how to write code and replaced them with copilot
- the library, https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui , is react = web
- Doesn’t even come close to proving anything.
- Proves nothing. Is edge a web app?
- The start menu is not a web app.
- React does not mean web lol. React is a UI library.
- If you do a native photo gallery and it uses 1000 mb of RAM just to showing 5 screenshots, that means you’re a grossly incompetent coder and that’s even worse
- I can’t believe you don’t know this, but Edge is a web browser, used to show web pages.
- The start menu is a web app and Microsoft itself even admitted it’s the reason it totally sucks and it will be rewritten native https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/21/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-start-menu-performance-boost-shift-to-winui-from-web-based-components/
- It’s a UI library for… Drumroll… WebApps!
You really need to ask someone who knows what React is about React lol. It is not a UI for web apps.
Using “web based components” doesn’t make something a web app 🤣.
Is steam a web app?
Microsoft also made and use this……
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-environment/javascript/react-native-for-windows
Is it actually doing it in-device? Given that it’s attached to OneDrive, I was rather under the impression that it was just offloading the processing to their servers.
Doesn’t really matter where it’s doing what. It’s displaying it all on device. It’s caching stuff on device.
It does matter if you don’t want your shit in the cloud.
Yesterday I found that my C drive was almost completely full and that was causing issues, digging into it I would that somehow a bug in One drives logging had generated almost 30 GB of logs, and the funny part is I have OneDrive disabled on my laptop. Tech has become such a toxic shithole field I wish I picked a different career
Fun fact: Microsoft will try to guess your passwords to open and scan your encrypted archives when uploaded to OneDrive.
Microsoft also hands your BitLocker recovery keys to the government on request.
Microsoft also uses your local machine’s GDID to deanonymize and track you across the internet for the government.
These are paid surveillance services Microsoft provides to the government, paid for by your tax dollars. No wonder they desperately want to force you to use OneDrive.
Dropped Microsoft a long time ago. Loving every second of it.
There has got to be a lawsuit against this shit.
There was a massive lawsuit for simply including IE in the install as default, and this is 100 times worse than that.
Nowadays, all you have to do to get your antitrust lawsuits conveniently forgotten is agree to lock down your company’s OS and share your data with the US government, like Google.
always the EU.
They’ve certainly improved things for people globally with their rulings.
The decade of the Linux Desktop, sponsored by Windows11
If it continues like this, it very well might ne some day. One can dream and hope…
At least for now, One can drive 😃
I dislike this article because it hides important facts until the last section: “I am in touch with Microsoft about OneDrive Photos, and my early findings suggest that it was an unintended rollout. An apology should be coming soon.”
So, this journalist/news site shames Microsoft for doing something shitty, while doing something shitty themselves.
Doing unintended rollouts is also shameful. They’re a billion dollar corporation. There’s absolutely no excuse for something like that to happen. The journalist did nothing wrong to call them out.
It’s very unprofessional by MS and they should be shamed for it, I’m not arguing against that. I’m only saying I think this article is bad.
What shitty thing did the author do? Regardless of if this rollout was intentional or not, they did do it, and there’s no excusing that An apology doesn’t change anything.
I write that in my first sentence : “I dislike this article because it hides important facts until the last section”
You also make it sound like I’m defending MS - that confuse me quite a bit too since I’m actually stating in my comment that they did something shitty.
Clear now?
“I am in touch with Microsoft about OneDrive Photos, and my early findings suggest that it was an unintended rollout. An apology should be coming soon.”
That’s not a particularly important fact. The important fact is that they did push this and there was nothing the users could do about it. Their apology doesn’t mean anything when they keep doing this shit.
I see it differently, I think it makes quite a difference whether it was intentional or not.
Then you’re a fool. Every wrong these corporations commit should be met with as much hostility as we can muster. They don’t deserve our grace. If they could hook us all up to tubes and drain our blood for profit while blasting us with ads they would do it without even thinking twice. We’re nothing to them.
nah, incompetence at this level deserves shame
Agreed, but not my argument.
Strong disagree. Microsoft does this on the regular. They get no credit for their repeated ‘we’re sorry’.
You disagree with what? Do you think it is great journalism to hide that information to the very end of the article?
MS clearly did something shitty, not arguing about that.
I corrupt the files. I take ownership, remove inheritance, and then deny Trusted Installer and System access. My windows systems generally have several components neutered like this. Major upgrades will sometimes overwrite my changes, but mostly they stick. Absolutely nonfunctional.
I’d rather not use windows than have to do what you’re doing to keep it functional.
Ok. Then don’t use windows. Sounds good.
I already don’t. I’ve run Linux as my main OS on home computers for 3-4 years now, and I use MacOS for work.
this has been a thing for years, I remember having to uninstall it so many times, back when I had windows, I mean. :P
so mac or distro?
Take it one step further. Linux on mac.
OneNote too. That was the final nail in the coffin for me over a year ago when I said fuck this and switched to Linux.
