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The Weather App, as I understand it, is built by the Bing team, who use WinJS (javascript) for their apps. This native compiler backend is for .NET, so they wont benefit from this at all.



Damn, there goes my theory. But then why the hell so slow?


It was vastly improved with the 8.1 Update 1, but I'll grant you it was depressingly slow on Windows 8 and the 8.1 upgrade.




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