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Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 03, 2026 · Engineering Insights

Microsoft's WinUI team is advancing to phase four of open sourcing, working almost exclusively in public repos.

“One of the big things that I'm personally really excited about is for us to complete our journey to open source.”

A Windows UI engineer at Microsoft Build discusses WinUI performance improvements, new data grid and charting controls, and the team's progression toward fully open sourcing WinUI by moving development into public repos. Despite the title mentioning AI-assisted workflows, the transcript contains no substantive AI content, making it a minor signal for an AI-focused newsletter.

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