A progressive web application offers us the advantages of applications (notifications, showing itself as an application ...) and web pages that are always up to date. Let's say it is a mixture of both. These types of applications are nothing more than a direct access to a web page but without showing the address bar, showing an interface identical to an application, but occupying the same space on our computer.
Another advantage of this type of application is that they do not have to go through the app stores at any time, thus avoiding the user having to visit the store to install the applications. This type of application is not updated since the data it shows is always on the server is not our device. One of Microsoft's most used applications, it will become PWA by 2022.
Microsoft is working on a PWA version of Outlook, an application whose current name is Monarch and that will allow the computer giant offer the mail client on Windows and macOS through a single application, which will facilitate and speed up the implementation of new functions, since they will reach both operating systems together when they are introduced on the web, not through an application update.
Although it is true that Microsoft already offers access to Outlook via browser, both for users of the free and paid versions, the web app version it will be much more complete and it will offer the same functions that today we can find in the paid version, but without having to install it on our computer and constantly update it, since we will only have to visit the website the first time so that the database is downloaded. service.