Microsoft Store on Oct. 31 will eradicate accepting new app submissions for Windows Phone 8.x or earlier, together with XAP or APPX packages for Windows 8/8.1.

Windows Phone has long ceased as a going concern on your company, via an exec in 2010 effectively tweeting about its death after its business basically shrunk to nothing.

Windows 8.1, however was garnering 7.56 business in the Windows-only July 2018 report from StatCounter, which pegged the older Windows 8's share at 2.54 percent.

After ceasing to accept the new apps for Microsoft Store on Oct. 31, the retailer will stop distributing app updates to Windows Phone 8.x or earlier devices on July 1, 2019.

The completed milestone inside of the sunsetting of Windows 8 (introduced in August 2012) and Windows 8.1 (introduced in August 2013), are going to be July 1, 2023, when Microsoft will eradicate distributing app updates to Windows 8/8.1 devices.

"We encourage yourself to explore ways to port your current app into the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) that permit you to create a single Windows 10 app package the fact that customers can install onto all device families," Microsoft said during a post today (Aug. 20). "