Basic / Free Licenses customers who would like to continue using enterprise maps from Microsoft are encouraged to move to Azure Maps before June 30, 2025. Announcements - Bing Maps Dev Center (bingmapsportal.com) I want to keep and continue using my Bing

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Basic / Free Licenses customers who would like to continue using enterprise maps from Microsoft are encouraged to move to Azure Maps before June 30, 2025.

Announcements - Bing Maps Dev Center (bingmapsportal.com)

I want to keep and continue using my Bing maps key on my account for uwp Lukes Earth app made on visual studio 2022

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Unless you have a licensed account, you won't be able to continue using Bing Maps beyond that date. Also worth noting that the UWP map control was built for Windows 8 and 10. Windows 10 goes out of support in 2025. UWP in generally is no longer being updated beyond security related updates. The WinUI community went a different direction for its map control and didn't port over the Bing Maps one. So, the future of that control, outside of the retirement of Bing Maps has looked good for a while (I'm not on the maps team, just stating what I've observed). There is another thread on UWP here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1685343/uwp-apps-using-mapcontrol-per-bing-map-enterprise