Back in December final 12 months, Microsoft introduced the impending deprecation of Microsoft Defender Application Guard (MDAG), previously referred to as Windows Defender Application Guard, from Edge. Several months later, in April 2024, the tech massive added extra information about it and related extensions, revealing that the deprecation used to be deliberate for June 2024.

This week, Microsoft has in the end formally showed that MDAG has been deprecated and got rid of in Windows 11 24H2 along the related Windows Isolated app launcher APIs. Note, on the other hand, that this doesn’t have an effect on house customers as such because the function is principally designed for enterprises.

On its respectable web site that main points the record of got rid of Windows options, Microsoft writes:

Microsoft Defender Application Guard, together with the Windows Isolated App Launcher APIs, is deprecated for Microsoft Edge for Business and is now not to be had beginning with Windows 11, model 24H2.

For the ones no longer accustomed to how Application Guard labored, using the Windows Isolated app launcher APIs, Microsoft would evaluate a visited URL in opposition to a listing of depended on web pages. If the sort of URL used to be no longer discovered at the record, then Edge would release it within a protected, remoted VM container atmosphere.

Alongside the record of got rid of options, Microsoft had additionally up to date the elimination of WDAG within the deprecation record:

[Update – October 2024]: Starting with Windows 11, model 24H2, Microsoft Defender Application Guard, together with the Windows Isolated App Launcher APIs, is now not to be had.

Microsoft feels the function is now not vital for the newest Windows 11 model since more recent security measures are already found in its browser that give protection to in opposition to the likes of phishing, typosquatting, and information loss. The corporate writes:

The further security measures in Edge make it very protected with no need Application Guard. The rising record of security measures contains:

• Defender SmartScreen for the anti-phishing and malware fortify and URL scanning and blockading.
• Enhanced safety mode for safeguarding in opposition to memory-related vulnerabilities through disabling just-in-time JavaScript compilation (and different protections).
• Website typo coverage for misspelled web pages.
• Data Loss Prevention to spot, track, and routinely give protection to delicate pieces.

In case you overlooked it, Microsoft has additionally got rid of WordPad in Windows 11 24H2.