"This time, it's not familiar apps like WordPad or Maps, but a series of web components dating back to Windows 8 and the first version of Edge. The company reports that these components will officially be given deprecated status. This marks the beginning of their slow demise. The list includes Legacy Web View, the HTML and JavaScript apps from Windows 8 and 8.1 that later became UWP apps, and the first generation of Progressive Web Apps."
"For users, little will change for the time being. Microsoft emphasizes that the components will not be removed from Windows immediately and will continue to receive security updates for the time being. However, developers should not expect any new features. In its documentation, the company states that the components will eventually stop receiving updates and will disappear in future versions of Windows."
"Microsoft is pointing developers to alternatives such as WebView2 and modern Chromium-based Progressive Web Apps. This is in line with the company's broader strategy of ridding Windows of old technologies that are hardly used anymore, while at the same time accelerating the transition to modern and more secure web standards. For software developers, this means that they will eventually have to adapt or migrate their applications to remain compatible with new versions of Windows."
Microsoft expanded the list of obsolete Windows features to include several EdgeHTML-based web components originating from Windows 8 and the original Edge. The affected items include Legacy Web View, the HTML and JavaScript apps from Windows 8 and 8.1 that became UWP apps, first-generation Progressive Web Apps, and the original Edge developer tools. The components will continue receiving security updates for now but will be deprecated with no new features and will eventually stop receiving updates and be removed. Microsoft recommends WebView2 and Chromium-based PWAs as migration paths and frames this as part of a broader cleanup of outdated technologies.
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