Windows App SDK is the successor to the deprecated Universal Windows Platform (UWP). The most obvious victims are cloud storage services like Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive, unless of course Microsoft has figured out a way to bring these things forward to the new app. And doing so would likely break File Explorer’s extensibility model. To transition this app to the Windows App SDK and WinUI 3, Microsoft will most likely have to rewrite it from scratch. To understand what this change means, one first needs to understand how Microsoft created the current version of File Explorer: this is a decades-old classic desktop application that was skinned with WinUI 2 in Windows 11 using a private version of a technology called XAML Islands to give it a more modern look and feel. It looks similar to the Windows 11 File Explorer that you use today.” (It looks identical.) File Explorer on WinAppSDK is going to be available soon in the Windows Insider Preview Program. “We’ve been working really closely with the File Explorer team over the last year-plus to migrate that app to WinAppSDK and WinUI 3. “We wanted to share some news with File Explorer,” Microsoft WinUI product manager Gabby Bilka said during the call. News of the change came during a live WinUI Community Call and was first reported by Rafael Rivera. In an unexpected move, Microsoft said this week that it will transition the Windows 11 File Explorer app to the Windows App SDK, a potentially monumental change that could break compatibility with apps that integrate with this key system app.

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