With every update, Windows 10 gains lots of additional features, but Microsoft also gives the elbow to some functionality, and highlights features that will not be developed.

So, the list of features being ditched with the freshly launched May 2019 Update has just been published by Microsoft, and the good news is that when it comes to what's being removed, it's nothing that you will likely shed any tears over.

Firstly, support for XDDM-based remote display drivers is set to be removed in a future release, Microsoft notes, adding: "Independent Software Vendors which use XDDM-based remote display driver should plan a migration towards the WDDM driver model."

And secondly, the desktop messaging app is losing the sync feature which allowed it to sync texts caused by Windows Mobile devices, keeping a duplicate of these using the pc desktop. Of course, Microsoft's mobile OS is dead in the water and reaches end-of-life in December 2019, so it's not surprising that this particular bit of functionality isn't important to the company anymore.

Windows To Going, going… gone!

When it comes to features which are no more underactive development, included in this are the roaming of Taskbar settings (where it's positioned, whether or not this auto-hides, and so forth), and Microsoft advises this capability is going to be disabled inside a future release.

Windows To Go - which lets you boot up a workspace from a USB drive - will also not be developed, and the Print 3D app has been replaced by 3D Builder (which you can snag from the Microsoft Store).

Finally, with regards to Wi-Fi networks using outdated WEP security, or TKIP encryption (used in WPA - instead of WPA2 or WPA3), Windows 10 will issue an alert whenever you connect, as well as in the near future, connecting to these networks is going to be blocked completely. Microsoft rightly doesn't consider them secure enough anymore.