Halloween apparently isn’t over. Microsoft is taking the knife to 2 legacy apps inside Windows 11: Windows Maps and Movies & TV. But it’s syncing up with the Xbox app to offer you much more flexibility on the place to obtain video games.

The adjustments arrive as a part of Windows Insider Build 25987, within the Canary Channel. Recall that Canary is the far-future channel, the place Microsoft checks out model new ideas that will by no means see the sunshine of day.

As a part of the set up course of, Microsoft said that it will eradicate each the Windows Maps and Movie & TV apps from new installations. Both apps will stay if you happen to’re merely resetting your PC. In both case, Microsoft stated that it will additionally maintain the apps on the Windows Store, the place they are going to be up to date as properly.

This isn’t unsual; Microsoft’s telemetry tells it what apps are getting used, and subsequently which apps must be maintained and up to date. But Microsoft has at all times tried to purge apps that aren’t getting used to scale back its personal improvement load, and reduce a few of the bloat from Windows. These two apps seem like the newest casualties.

Both Canary Build 25987 and a associated Dev Channel construct, 23580, may even incorporate the flexibleness Microsoft has been including to the Xbox app. The latter app now lets you obtain a recreation to a drive of you’re selecting, and never simply the principle boot drive, C:. The Microsoft Store is being synced with the Xbox app to mean you can obtain the sport to different drives, too. That’s a plus, since Microsoft is now permitting you to not solely retailer video games in your boot drive, but additionally to make use of a gaming SSD for extra storage.

The Dev Channel construct can be promising elevated throughput on recordsdata shared with close by share, eradicating the necessity to create a non-public community and permitting customers to make use of a public one if it’s out there.