US EditionIt's the End of the Road for Microsoft Store Movies and TV Shows. What It Means for You
UNITED STATES, JUL 18 – Microsoft has ceased new movie and TV sales on Windows and Xbox but will maintain access to previously purchased content through Movies & TV app and Movies Anywhere in the US.
- On July 18, 2025, Microsoft shut down its Movies & TV storefront on Windows and Xbox, ending new movie and TV purchases.
- The Movies & TV service launched in 2006 as part of the Zune Video Marketplace, evolved through Xbox Video and was renamed in 2015 after nearly two decades of media sales.
- Purchased content remains streamable in the Movies & TV app on Xbox and Windows PCs, and U.S. users can sync titles to other platforms via Movies Anywhere.
- Microsoft removed the purchase button from the Entertainment tab in the Store app, and its Terms of Sale state `Movies and TV shows are ineligible for refunds`.
- Microsoft says it’s now outsourcing movie and TV purchases to third-party streaming services like Amazon and Netflix, leaving content sales to these platforms.
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The cloud is ethereal and digital purchases, smoke, because stores appear and disappear without customers being able to do anything. Today it is Movies & TV that says goodbye.
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