Microsoft Removes the Translator App for Windows 10

One of the bases of Windows 10 is its applications, or apps. Microsoft‘s operating system, since its launch, wanted to look a little more like mobile devices, which gave rise to the universal application platform, UWP, and the Windows store, the Microsoft Store. However, these applications have not had the success that the company expected them to have, and that has led Microsoft to rethink many things, both in the way it manages its store and in the apps it offers through it. And one of the victims of this new approach is Translator .

In addition to the basic and essential applications, which are included by default in Windows 10, Microsoft turned many of its services into apps so that users could download them from the Store. One of these applications is Translator. This app is none other than Bing translator turned app. With it, users could translate all kinds of texts in the operating system using the Microsoft engine without having to go through the browser.

Microsoft Removes the Translator App for Windows 10

This application has been among users since 2015. And it was even one of the first that Microsoft updated to the new Fluent Design. However, it is true that it is not exactly the popular and most used application of all those that it offers to users. And, after eliminating it a few years ago from Windows Phones, now it is Windows 10’s turn.

Translator disappears from Windows 10

From today, all users who do not have the app installed will no longer be able to download it from the Microsoft Store . To install it, we will have to look for it in alternative stores and install the appx by hand in the operating system. Something that, by the way, is not recommended.

Users who have already downloaded the app from before will be able to continue using it until it definitely stops working. We do not know how long the Translator app will continue to work, but it will most likely do so until Microsoft makes a change to the API that makes it no longer supported.

Microsoft Translator

With this move, Microsoft Translator joins Office Lens, another app that had been present in Windows 10 since 2015 and was removed from the Store earlier this year. This makes us think that we will probably still see new apps disappearing from the store in the coming months.

Create your Translator app in seconds

Translator will continue to be available for Android and iOS in the respective app stores. This decision only affects the Windows 10 version.

Therefore, if we are one of those who used the translator often, we now have two options: the first, to use the Bing website to translate texts, and the second, to create our own Bing translator app. We can do this very easily from Edge, opening the options menu, choosing the “applications” section and installing the site as an application.

App PWA Microsoft Bing Translator

In this way, we will create our own PWA, which we can run as if it were the native Microsoft translator app.