Windows 10: Pinterest currently has no plans for Windows 10 PWA but the company is not against the idea

WinLatest · Jul 24, 2018

Progressive Web Apps is a popular technology that allows developers to create a website that looks and works like a native app. Progressive Web App (PWA) is officially supported on Windows 10 and Twitter has already published its PWA in the Microsoft Store with support for native APIs.

Pinterest last year switched over to the PWA model. The company reports that PWA has been the number one source of signups, 843% YoY increase and has close to 1 million people.

Some @Pinterest PWA fun facts:
– It's now our #1 driver of signups, an 843% YoY increase
– Nearly 1M people use our PWA from their home screen each week
– It's our first platform to support right to left languages AND night mode

— Pinterest Eng (@PinterestEng) July 20, 2018

Zack Argyle, engineering manager, core experience at Pinterest tells us that the company currently has no plans to bring its Progressive Web App (PWA) to the Microsoft Store (formerly Windows Store). But the company is not against this idea and it may consider bringing Pinterest PWA to the Microsoft Store in the future.

Not currently. But we are not against it.

— Zack Argyle (@ZackArgyle) July 24, 2018

Pinterest remains one of the most popular social media networks. It basically allows users to ‘pin’ photos on a virtual pin board. Back in 2014, Pinterest had an official app for Windows Phone but it was quietly pulled from the Store.

It’s worth noting that Pinterest’s website itself is a Progressive Web App (PWA) and you can browse it in Microsoft Edge browser on Windows 10.

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Brink · Jul 24, 2018

Microsoft’s Bold Plan to Bring PWAs to Windows 10

I recently spoke with Microsoft’s Jeff Burtoft and Aaron Gustafson about the company’s plans to bring Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to Windows 10. And I couldn’t be more excited about Microsoft’s plans to integrate PWAs with the desktop.

This is a milestone I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. But with the “Redstone 4” release—currently due in March or April 2018—Microsoft will formally support PWAs as a key platform feature of Windows 10, matching and in some ways exceeding what Google has done in Android.

Watching the industry embrace PWAs is exciting on a number of levels. This apps platform is a perfect storm of the right ideas at the right time, a spiritual combination of the cross-platform dreams for Java and the pervasive nature and openness of the web. I’ll be writing soon more about my broader take on the future of PWAs across all client platforms. But for now, I’d like to focus on that most unlikely of platform makers to embrace the future. Yes. Microsoft.

Given how much has changed at Microsoft in the Nadella era, maybe “unlikely” is the wrong word: The once-insular software giant has embraced open source and open standards at a pace that is both dizzying and confusing to folks like me who have followed Microsoft for decades. I’ll get there.

But in the meantime, the new Microsoft is racing forward into the 21st century. And part of its evolving platform strategy is embracing technologies that it did not invent or play any developmental role. It does this to make life easier on developers, which can now target a platform that works on virtually all modern devices, and to make things better for its own customers, who, to date, have been under-served by the Microsoft Store on Windows.

Nothing Burtoft and Gustafson told me is necessarily new information: Microsoft has quietly been trickling out its plans for PWAs over the past year and a half or so, and this is all public information. But aside from me and—OK, just me, basically—few people have really reported on these efforts. Which, by the way, are just about to go public in a big way.

So let’s discuss how Microsoft came to embrace PWAs and how it plans to integrate this technology into Windows 10. This will be news to many, I think...
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Read more: Microsofts Bold Plan to Bring PWAs to Windows 10 - Thurrott.com

Ieso · Jul 24, 2018

pinterest beta is not on my phone anymore

Has there been any update on this issue? Are they planning to re-release? If I use the website version of pinterest on my windows phone, there is a huge popup suggesting that I use the app instead. This popup takes up nearly 50% of the screen--shame on
pinterest! How can they continue to suggest using an app that no longer exists? It seems they have gone to great lengths to make pinterest unusable on WP8.

hellrazor · Jul 24, 2018

Survey Reveals Companies' Early Windows 8 Reactions and Plans

70% of respondents indicated their organizations are already fully on, or in process of moving to Windows 7, suggesting that their organizational environments are or will soon be ready to make the next move – to Windows 8.

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Bull fucking shit.

Windows 10: Pinterest currently has no plans for Windows 10 PWA but the company is not against the idea

Pinterest currently has no plans for Windows 10 PWA but the company is not against the idea

Pinterest currently has no plans for Windows 10 PWA but the company is not against the idea

Pinterest currently has no plans for Windows 10 PWA but the company is not against the idea

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