Microsoft has a brand new entry within the listing of deprecated Home windows options. Sadly, it’s not one thing previous and long-abandoned, just like the 15-year-old backup answer that Microsoft nonetheless suggests for Home windows 10 and 11 customers. In actual fact, it’s a comparatively trendy characteristic that the corporate launched in Might 2022 known as “Urged actions.”

Urged actions arrived as a part of construct 25115 over two years in the past. The thought was easy: let Home windows 11 acknowledge primary stuff like cellphone numbers and date/time to offer shortcuts for cellphone calls, web search, or calendar options, like creating an occasion. Sadly, as helpful as it’d sound for some, Microsoft determined to kill recommended options in Home windows 11 with out a lot rationalization.

Here’s what the corporate mentioned within the official documentation:

Urged actions that seem once you copy a cellphone quantity or future date in Home windows 11 are deprecated and will likely be eliminated in a future Home windows 11 replace.

There isn’t a data on when recommended actions will likely be faraway from the working system, so that you would possibly nonetheless have a while earlier than Microsoft pulls the plug.

It’s fairly stunning to see Microsoft killing a comparatively new Home windows 11 characteristic this early. One would possibly guess that the recommended actions didn’t discover a lot reputation amongst customers, and the corporate determined to take away them.

Among the different just lately deprecated Home windows options embody Android app assist, Paint 3D (you’ll be able to nonetheless get it if you need, by the best way), Home windows Speech Recognition, the Ideas app, Steps Recorder, WordPad (it is usually potential to carry it again) and extra. You may try the whole listing of deprecated Home windows options within the official assist doc.