6 Things Microsoft Is Killing With the Windows 10 May 2019 Update

With progress, some things get tossed aside. So it is with the Windows 10 May 2019 Update.

The latest version of Microsoft's operating system started rolling out earlier this week, and it brings with it a new sandbox feature to isolate questionable .exe files, the ability to remove some built-in apps, and kaomoji shortcuts. But to make room for these features, Redmond had to cut or scale back a few things, too.

Features Going Away in the May 2019 Update:

• XDDM-based remote display driver: Remote Desktop Services will now use a Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM)-based Indirect Display Driver (IDD) for a single-session remote desktop instead of XDDM. Support for Windows 2000 Display Driver Model (XDDM)-based remote display drivers will be removed in a future release. Vendors that use an XDDM-based remote display driver should "plan a migration to the WDDM driver model," Microsoft says
• Messaging sync on the desktop messaging app: The desktop messaging app can sync SMS text messages received from Windows Mobile and save them on the desktop, but that's going away with this update.

Features Microsoft Is No Longer Developing:

These features aren't disappearing right now, but Microsoft is essentially pushing them to the side and "may remove them from a future update" since other options for them now exist.

• Windows To Go: This feature can generate a bootable Windows USB drive, should you ever need to run Windows 10 from a USB drive. Going forward, however, Windows To Go "is no longer being developed," Microsoft says, because it "does not support feature updates and therefore does not enable you to stay current, [and] requires a specific type of USB that is no longer supported by many OEMs."
• Print 3D app: Going forward, 3D Builder is the recommended 3D printing app; download it now from the Microsoft Store.
• Taskbar settings roaming: "Roaming of taskbar settings is no longer being developed and we plan to disable this capability in a future release," Microsoft says.
• Wi-Fi WEP and TKIP: If you upgrade to the May 2019 Update and connect to a Wi-Fi network secured by WEP or TKIP, the OS will display a warning message, since they're not considered to be as secure as WPA2 or WPA3. In a future release, WEP or TKIP connections will be blocked altogether, so "routers should be updated to use AES ciphers, available with WPA2 or WPA3," Microsoft says.

Microsoft notes that these updates are "subject to change and might not include every affected feature or functionality."

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