Microsoft Win11 25987 begins to migrate XAML shell from UWP to Win32+XAML

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Alejandro86 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com November 5 news, @ thebookisclosed found that Microsoft has started from Windows 11 Canary Build 25987 to provide both the old version and the new Win32+XAML-based version of the XAML shell service, and users can now enable the new version of the control center through ViveTool. He believes that this means that UWP will slowly become history.

In this screenshot, you can see that the new ShellHost in System32 and its managed ControlCenter.dll (CTOnews.com Note: this is the dll file of the control center) no longer have SystemApps, no more MSIX packages, no more UWP.

In fact, it can be seen from Microsoft's abandonment of UWP OneNote that Microsoft is gradually abandoning UWP applications, and later Microsoft has also abandoned UWP email and calendar applications.

For developers, Microsoft Store now accepts not only Win32 applications, but even PWA applications can be submitted to the shelves, so there is no need to develop UWP software.