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• WeatherMate — The weather on your desktop, without ads

  Posted on February 13, 2023 at 02:43 CST by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  Weather apps seem to follow a process in development.

  Step 1: Make a full-featured app.

  Step 2: Let people get hooked on it for a few years.

  Step 3: Ruin it by filling it with an obscene number of advertisements.

  But there is one app out there that is a breath of fresh air, mostly sunny with only a 10 percent chance of showers.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.07.0, 2023-02-13).

  Freeware Spotlight Deanna's Freeware Spotlight, Newsletters, Weather

• Is Microsoft dropping support for the Win 8.1 apps News, Sports, Money, Weather?

  Posted on May 8, 2019 at 14:32 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Poster BobbyB had problems with his Win8.1 machine this morning:

  Seems the Writings already on the wall for UWP or Metro Apps on Windows 8.1, just for the News App, Weather, Sports, Money… This popped in yesterday when I fired it up.

  

  Money, Sport and Weather just all displayed the same message on fire up this morning.

  I’ve seen some announcements about the impeding demise of News and Weather. Martin Geuß on the German-language DrWindows.de site has details of a report from one of his readers, @Brawl345, that the announcements appeared in German last week (thx, Dan Thorp-Lancaster at Windows Central). It isn’t clear to me if the messages appeared on a Win8 or 8.1 system.

  Has anybody out there seen similar messages? Can you find an official announcement about the end of life? I sure can’t.

  Windows News Money, News, Sports, Weather, Win8.1