They certainly aren’t like standard Windows applications, which we must now quaintly refer to as “legacy”.Ī traditional “legacy” app is deployed to the device. Let’s remind ourselves how Windows 10 UWP apps are deployed. But that’s something for future articles to discuss – right now, if you’re deploying Windows 10 or using it on Citrix XenApp or VMware Horizon, how do you shoehorn these annoying and quite-frankly-useless Windows 10 UWP apps out of your base image? So unpopular, in fact, that I hear Microsoft are actually pouring a lot of effort into (again) reinventing their apps platform, next time with something called MSIX (which may, to all intents and purposes, just be App-V 6.0 rebadged). Not even a little bit popular, in my experience. It would be safe to say that UWP apps aren’t the most popular move that Microsoft have ever made, whether this be with end-users, administrators, or application developers. Further servicing updates (Windows patches) or feature updates (OS upgrades) will possibly invalidate this, although I will strive to keep this article as up-to-date as humanly possible. Note:- this article refers to the removal process for Microsoft UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps on Windows 10 version 1803, fully patched as of. What’s the current thinking on how we can deal with them in our environments? Windows 10’s Universal Windows Platform apps may possibly be Microsoft’s most unpopular decision – ever.

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