Vanilla webviews is definitely possible on Windows with Webview2 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/ The problem though was compatibility since that webview might be based on old versions of Edge which used to be a much more outdated browser than Safari/Chrome. So far in 5 years of using Electron Windows never broke Electron except on a minor instance. Our Windows Electron app doesn't work on Windows 10 S. The problem might have became fixable by now but Windows S had so little marketshare that we never found time to fix that issue.