Microsoft announces the closure of windows phone 8.1 store

Windows Phone 8.1 Store already has a date for its final closure. Microsoft itself announced it in a statement. It is one more step on the part of the American firm in the end of support for everything related to Windows Phone, which also includes this store. As the company has said in a statement, there are two months until it closes.

Microsoft announces the closure of Windows Phone 8.1 Store

Since it will be on December 16 when it will be closed definitively. So users will not be able to download more applications from it, as a consequence of this decision.

Goodbye to the store

Microsoft confirms that it is one more part at the end of the support. So until December 15, you will be able to use this store normally. Although the 16th will be the closing, so that no more applications will be able to be downloaded from it. Of course, those applications that have been downloaded from this store will continue to function normally.

Therefore, if there are applications that you want to have, the company recommends that they be downloaded all before this December 16. Since this way users can ensure they are available on the device.

The Windows Phone Store 10, based on Windows 10, will continue to work after December 16. So from Microsoft they recommend users to update, if they want to continue having access to the store. There are a number of phones that can still upgrade so that they have such a store.

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