Windows 11: A new major native software disappears this summer, replaced … by a web page

The Windows Cards application was no longer really one. Abandoned, relegated to a dark corner of the Windows ecosystem, she had already lost the support of offline cards and was not even even in the new Windows 11 installations since The 24h2 version. Microsoft, in a good pragmatics, therefore formalizes what everyone suspected: Windows Cards joins the list of obsolete features.

End of road for windows cards: Microsoft favors bing online cards

The deadline is fixed. In July 2025, not only Windows Cards will disappear from the Microsoft Store, but the application will receive a final update which will simply make it unusable. For those who have already uninstalled, impossible to recover it after this date. And even if the recorded data – routes or favorites – will remain on the device, they will become unusable.

Launched with Windows 8, cards was part of Microsoft’s effort to offer a home alternative to Google Maps and Apple Plans. But unlike WordPad or Skype who really marked generations, Cards never really took off. Its adoption remained marginal, confined to some punctual uses (in particular offline cards for certain laptops).

No question, however, for Microsoft to completely abandon the field of cartography. The firm redirects followers to Bing Cards, but web version. Accessible via any browser, this online service becomes the only house solution to consult plans and routes stamped Microsoft.

This withdrawal also marks the end of the whole ecosystem that revolved around Windows Cards. The Windows Maps Platform Apis, the UWP Map Control … All this will also be depreciated. A kind of digital spring cleaning, where Microsoft concentrates its forces where use is more significant.

After WordpadVbscript, Cortana and even Skype, sacrificed on the altar of Teamsit is therefore now Windows Cards that disappears from the table. An assumed coup for a lightened windows 11, more turned towards the cloud than towards the relics of the past.