May I recommend learning some PowerShell? Scare the ever loving eff out of your friends by popping up a terminal…

Also, install winget - although it is usually installed by default now. It’s like apt or dnf, but for windows.

This is the normal cycle of tech news repeating something boring with each repeat making it sound ever more serious.

The source is a Microsoft blog post that effectively just means they won’t be putting any new engineering efforts into it, not that they’ll be removing it any time soon.

Microsoft regularly “deprecates” things and leaves them kicking around and available for up to a decade.