The Viber app for Windows 10 on PC disappears from the Windows Store: it's time to pull the traditional installer

It may not sound familiar to everyone, but back in the prehistory of telephony and when social networks and Messaging applications were not what they are today, Viber arrived. It was almost 8 years ago, in 2010.

Viber was and is a communication and messaging application, the great-grandfather of the ones we use today on our computers and which in its early days became extremely popular for offering free calls via Internet in a simple way. An app that expanded thanks to its presence on different platforms.Platforms Windows 10 for PC is now crashing from.

And it is that Viber is no longer present in the Microsoft Store at least for Windows 10 on PC. It's still available for Windows mobile devices, but there's no guarantee that it won't continue down the same path as the desktop version.

The reason for this elimination remains to be determined, something that did not take us long to find out. And we already feared it. With PWA's (Progressive Web Applications) threatening on the horizon, UWPs (Universal Applications) had and still have their days numbered

Microsoft's commitment to integrate its two ecosystems (mobile and desktop) has been unsuccessfulon the one hand due to the disappearance of the former and on the other due to the aforementioned PWA's, a much more interesting option.

And no, we do not mean by this that Viber becomes a PWA, but rather that they have seen little interest in having a Universal Applicationin the Microsoft Store. They therefore keep the executable installer for Windows on their website while leaving the remnants of their UWP for Windows 10 Mobile, which is in rather poor he alth, it must be said, having gone months without support.

So, these are difficult times for Viber And the thing is that the difficult thing is not getting there, but staying. And although at the time it was a very successful application, the passage of time has not been very kind to it, perhaps because it has rested on its laurels, a cardinal sin in the times in which we live.

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