{"id":8075,"date":"2018-08-24T01:41:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T17:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2019-02-18T12:37:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:37:29","slug":"aa24yk0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-aa24yk0\/","title":{"rendered":"Important dates regarding apps with Windows Phone 8.x and earlier and Windows 8\/8.1 packages submitted to Microsoft Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>As a part of our\u00a0Windows device life cycle, Microsoft Store will soon stop accepting\u00a0new\u00a0apps with Windows Phone 8.x or earlier or Windows 8\/8.1 packages (XAP and APPX). Soon after that date, we will stop distributing app updates to Windows Phone 8.x or earlier and Windows 8\/8.1 devices; at that time, updates will only be made available to customers using Windows 10 devices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of our\u00a0Windows device life cycle, Microsoft Store will soon stop accepting\u00a0new\u00a0apps with Windows Phone 8.x or earlier or Windows 8\/8.1 packages (XAP and APPX). Soon after that date, we will stop distributing app updates to Windows Phone 8.x or earlier and Windows 8\/8.1 devices; at that time, updates will only be made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>As a part of our\u00a0Windows device life cycle, Microsoft Store will soon stop accepting\u00a0new\u00a0apps with Windows Phone 8.x or earlier or Windows 8\/8.1 packages (XAP and APPX). Soon after that date, we will stop distributing app updates to Windows Phone 8.x or earlier and Windows 8\/8.1 devices; at that time, updates will only be made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}