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Chris Boss

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Windows support for WIN32 apps in the future
« on: May 20, 2025, 10:12:22 am »
New exciting news from the latest Build 2025:

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/12/04/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27758-canary-channel/

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2024/12/03/raising-the-bar-updates-to-the-microsoft-store-on-windows/

Microsoft has just announced that the Microsoft Store is soon going to support WIN32 app updates via the store.

The MS Store supports downloading of WIN32 apps. But updating had to be handled by the developers own website externally.

Now the MS Store will support not only downloading WIN32 apps, but also the store can handle updates of the same WIN32 app.

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Re: Windows support for WIN32 apps in the future
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2025, 10:19:34 am »
My take on this:

While this is a great new feature for WIN32 developers (ie. Powerbasic apps), it also tells us something about Microsofts attitude towards WIN32 support.

They would not add a feature like this to the Microsoft (Windows) Store if they desired to terminate WIN32 support any time soon. Maybe this is a good indicator of what to expect in Windows 12. As would be very surprised to see Microsoft do this and then remove all WIN32 support from Windows 12.

This seems (to me) to indicate that Microsoft wants to continue to support WIN32 apps in the future, but simply wants to make the use of WIN32 apps safer for end users, by controlling now only the  install process, but also the update process.

This is good news in my opinion.

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Re: Windows support for WIN32 apps in the future
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2025, 10:23:03 am »
I will post more info about this as it appears on the web.

Build 2025 is onging at this moment, so likely more will come out after Build is over.

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-store-build-2025/

« Last Edit: May 20, 2025, 10:28:55 am by Chris Boss »