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Microsoft Prepares To Kill the Windows 8 Store: No New Apps From November (arstechnica.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the funeral-planning dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Windows 8.1 dropped out of mainstream support earlier this year, entering the five-year extended support period in which it receives only security fixes. However, Microsoft is still accepting new software application submissions to the Windows 8 Store. Submissions for new Windows Phone 8 apps are also currently accepted. Today, Microsoft announced that this is soon coming to an end. After October 31, new applications will no longer be accepted for distribution through the store. Updates to existing applications will continue to be supported. However, there's now an end date for these, too: from July 1, 2023, Microsoft will cease to distribute any updates for Windows 8.1 Store applications. The deadline for Windows Phone 8 is sooner: updates for those apps will end on July 1, 2019.

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  1. And nothing of value was lost... by ELCouz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    n/t

  2. Re:Ya know by JMJimmy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People just roll with this shit without thinking about the millions in software licences that are forever lost. The store is so integrated into windows services now that the entire OS is likely to become unusable (well, more unusable).

    Store shutdowns like this should require DRM removed from anything sold at the very least.

  3. Re:8 is great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Faster than 7, less Googly than 10. No forced upgrades.

  4. Re:Ya know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They should support it at least as long as copyright lasts. I mean, they think it has value for life of the author + 70 years so that must be the minimum reasonable period to provide to others to get the value out of the products they license.