Nothing Major Was Removed or Deprecated in Windows 10 Version 1909

With the release of Windows 10 version 1909 this week, Microsoft has documented the features it’s removed and deprecated.

“[While] each version of Windows 10 adds new features and functionality, occasionally we also remove features and functionality, often because we’ve added a better option,” Microsoft notes in its creatively named support document, Windows 10 features we’re no longer developing.

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Only two features have been removed from Windows 10 in version 1909: Taskbar settings roaming, which was deprecated in version 1903, and Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP) APIs; the PNRP cloud service was previously removed in version 1809.

But many more features were deprecated, meaning that they will likely be removed in a future Windows 10 version. These include My People/People in the Shell, Hyper-V vSwitch on LBFO, the Language Community tab in Feedback Hub, Text Services Framework (TFS) 1 and 2 IME (which will be replaced by TSF3 IME in a future release), and Package State Roaming (PSR).

Previous versions were a bit more brutal. For example, Windows To Go was deprecated in 1903 and will never be updated.

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  • mmurfin87

    Premium Member
    13 November, 2019 - 11:28 am

    <p>My People is deprecated? That was fast. I always liked that feature.</p>

    • bart

      Premium Member
      13 November, 2019 - 12:11 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#488512">In reply to mmurfin87:</a></em></blockquote><p>Not sure how people can 'vote you down' on a feature that YOU liked. But hey….</p><p>I don't give two cents about My People tbh. Never took off </p>

      • ErichK

        Premium Member
        13 November, 2019 - 2:20 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#488542">In reply to Bart:</a></em></blockquote><p>I thought that was strange too, the downvote. Are there people who actually get offended at the notion that Microsoft of all companies may have had a good idea that somebody liked?</p>

    • benisaacs

      Premium Member
      13 November, 2019 - 12:30 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#488512">In reply to mmurfin87:</a></em></blockquote><p>It would’ve worked better if Outlook had been supported </p>

      • gregsedwards

        Premium Member
        13 November, 2019 - 12:56 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#488548">In reply to BenIsaacs:</a></em></blockquote><p>Outlook wasn't supported, but Exchange contacts absolutely were supported through People. I can pin anyone in my contacts as well as my company's address book. Social networking apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter never supported it, so it was pretty much DOA, which honestly, Microsoft should have realized after the Windows Phone hubs debacle.</p>

        • darkgrayknight

          Premium Member
          14 November, 2019 - 12:27 pm

          <blockquote><em><a href="#488555">In reply to gregsedwards:</a></em></blockquote><p>The functionality of Windows Phone People was so great for the short time it worked with Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Google, &amp; Outlook.com. Combining contacts was so much better than what you get with Android at this time. They really need to make Outlook on Android have a People/Contacts interface that handles Android contacts.</p>

  • jimchamplin

    Premium Member
    13 November, 2019 - 11:33 am

    <p>Windows To Go was one of the marquee features of Windows 10. I guess nobody really used it. It was a bit of a vague feature.</p>

    • benisaacs

      Premium Member
      13 November, 2019 - 12:29 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#488514">In reply to jimchamplin:</a></em></blockquote><p>Wasn’t it Windows 8?</p>

      • jimchamplin

        Premium Member
        13 November, 2019 - 1:48 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#488547">In reply to BenIsaacs:</a></em></blockquote><p>Mmmh! It was! It was still fairly well hyped with 10 from what I remember.</p>

  • gregsedwards

    Premium Member
    13 November, 2019 - 12:50 pm

    <p>Love the headline, Paul. On any other site, it would've been "You Won't Believe What Microsoft Killed in the Latest Version of Windows." You're like my own personal "Saved You a Click." ?</p>

  • glenn8878

    13 November, 2019 - 12:59 pm

    <p>It's time to roll up every feature and improvement into Windows 11. Then try out a new UI, which I know is very hard for Microsoft.</p><p><br></p><p>Snipping Tool is now <strong>Snip &amp; Sketch</strong>. Windows is always Windows, but every other application is somehow treated as if it's different, which I will likely use it the same like Snipping Tool.</p>

    • MikeGalos

      13 November, 2019 - 1:35 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#488556">In reply to glenn8878:</a></em></blockquote><p>Actually trying out a new UI is easier for Microsoft than it is for users whose response to Windows 8's UI changes was loud screaming that things had changed and they'd have to learn something new from what had been, essentially, in place since 1995.</p>

      • glenn8878

        13 November, 2019 - 1:43 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#488600">In reply to MikeGalos:</a></em></blockquote><p>I would argue it's not easy for Microsoft since they don't do UI's well. There's still legacy Windows 7 UI's in Windows 10. Legacy Windows/File Explorer UI and plenty of other legacy UI's. By the time they are finished, that's when it's ready to be branded as Windows 11. </p><p><br></p><p>Fleshing out the new combination Win32 and UWP app model will be the next big thing if they execute it well, but we know it's a 50-50 chance it will be botched.</p>

    • LocalPCGuy

      15 November, 2019 - 12:12 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#488556">In reply to glenn8878:</a></em></blockquote><p>Microsoft has said many times that Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows. I expect them to eventually release a new OS, that's not a spinoff like RT, or Windows on ARM. The next OS might be called Microsoft OS, or MSOS. </p>

  • mestiphal

    13 November, 2019 - 2:25 pm

    <p>funny how with new versions of windows we no longer talk about the features added, but instead the ones removed</p>

    • jim_vernon

      Premium Member
      13 November, 2019 - 4:05 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#488636">In reply to Mestiphal:</a></em></blockquote><p>Because that's what this specific article about this specific update was discussing. It doesn't mean that nothing was added or that Microsoft won't add features in future updates. </p>

    • Paul Thurrott

      Premium Member
      13 November, 2019 - 4:21 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#488636">In reply to Mestiphal:</a></em></blockquote><p>We talk about both. This was one post. </p>

    • davidblouin

      13 November, 2019 - 5:16 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#488636">In reply to Mestiphal:</a></em></blockquote><p>With new versions of Windows, internet pundit talks about features being remove and whine their heart out about features being added…</p>

    • Jackwagon

      Premium Member
      20 November, 2019 - 1:50 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#488636">In reply to Mestiphal:</a></em></blockquote><p>Well, they say that perfection is achieved not when nothing more can be added, but when nothing else can be taken away, so in that spirit it's certainly relevant.</p>

  • Patrick Wingert

    13 November, 2019 - 5:53 pm

    <p>Well my dell XPS 13 9370 doesn't seem to be eligible for an upgrade yet.</p>

  • zhackwyatt

    Premium Member
    14 November, 2019 - 12:02 am

    <p>If they'd only remove that stupid 3d objects button in the open and save dialogs. </p>

  • snowdragon

    14 November, 2019 - 12:29 am

    <p>Why can’t Microsoft keep Win7 <span style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">legacy&nbsp;for people that can’t leave it due to hardware. But bring out Win11 with no legacy&nbsp;but pure 64-bit drivers with no backward compatibility???</span></p>

    • awright18

      14 November, 2019 - 9:01 am

      <blockquote><a href="#488899"><em>In reply to snowdragon:</em></a><em> Make no mistake backward compatibility is primarily for businesses. They have ancient code in Windows to run ancient code that keeps businesses alive. It will never go away. They'd have to make a completely separate operating system to do what you are suggesting, and maybe they already have…</em></blockquote><p><br></p>

  • RobertJasiek

    17 November, 2019 - 9:37 am

    <p>Completely unlike 1903, the 1909 update for Windows 10 Pro 64b leaves every telemetry setting untouched in GUI settings, Windows services, registry, Windows firewall, group policies and task scheduler. This is how it always ought to be.</p>

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