r/windows • u/TheCelestialDawn • Jun 12 '25

General Question What happened to Windows Movie Maker?

It's the only movie software program I needed. Now it's gone?

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u/Euchre Jun 13 '25

Same thing that happened to iMovie - executives in a bureaucracy had to look like they were doing something, and as usual wanted to find a way to turn everything into a cash cow somehow. Apple tried to sell more Final Cut licenses by turning iMovie into dumbed down train wreck. Microsoft just basically took away the whole thing, then threw us a pretty shallow app and called it simply enough Video Editor, which was just basically a front end for some capabilities in Photos and other system libraries. After that weak tragedy, we got Clipchamp foisted on us.