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I do not understand why this would even be necessary. Why should Microsoft have to re-package applications for software vendors? Particularly after the security/privacy/reliability focused requirements (UWP and MSIX) were lifted, vendors should publish their own applications through the Microsoft Store. To help highlight vendors and products that have transitioned to modern device management (and shame those that have not) there is a community maintained spreadsheet named "Modern Windows Management Database". https://1drv.ms/x/s!AgG_boPR-xfWjN9i2Z_y_8ErM6t--A
- Joe_Lurie
Microsoft
treestryder Thanks, Nathan. This has been asked a couple times below, on why it's necessary vs the Store. We are not competing with the Microsoft Store, or with Winget, or with any other "catalog" type of app deployment. We are giving you another option, where the apps are prepackaged, and the updates will come down to Intune automatically and allow you to push them in a guided scenario.
As long as they are allowed to do whatever they want, software vendors have no incentive to change.
The store was more than a list of installable apps. By requiring legacy apps to be APPX packaged, or better, MSIX packaged UWP apps, it got us closer to the security and privacy model that Android and iOS have.
Not only have we lost the security/privacy/reliability focused goals of UWP and MSIX, now we have a team at Microsoft doing the work of these slacking vendors.
#ShouldBeUWP #ShouldBeMSIX #CouldBeAPPX
