If you’re still running applications built for Windows 10, you’re standing at a crossroads. That familiar environment is now officially unsupported by Microsoft, and leaving your users on that platform introduces both risk for them and opportunity for you. A new challenge stands before you today: how to go about updating apps for Windows 11 without setting off a migration nightmare.
With RAD Studio 13 Florence, you don’t just make your apps run — you modernize them: better performance, modern UI, the latest security features, cross-platform potential, and tools designed to drive productivity. You’ll see real benefits including: faster development cycles, happier users, and a foundation for future innovation.
The Challenge: Windows 10 End of Support and Modernization Pressure
Windows 10 reached end-of-life on October 14, 2025, which means Microsoft has stopped issuing routine security patches or updates. As time progresses there will be a growing gap between your Windows 10 apps and what users expect from the very latest iterations of Windows 11 and above.
That puts you in a tricky spot: your application still works, but as the OS drifts out of the spotlight, you potentially face compatibility issues, rising maintenance costs, and lost innovation time. Meanwhile, your customers will be adopting Windows 11 if they haven’t already, and expecting smoother interfaces, better integration, 64-bit performance by default, and smarter features. Even those users who have held out and resisted Windows 11, either by choice or because their hardware is unable to support it, will ultimately be pushed towards it.
The Way Forward with RAD Studio 13 Florence
This is where RAD Studio 13 Florence steps in for updating apps for Windows 11. It’s purpose-built to help you modernize quickly and confidently, giving you a unified development environment that keeps pace with Windows 11 and beyond.
- Modern IDE: A fully 64-bit RAD Studio IDE designed for high-performance Windows development.
- Updated Toolchains: Delphi now supports modern language constructs such as the ternary operator, “is not”, and “not in” operators. C++Builder 13 introduces Clang 20 and full C++23 compatibility.
- Next-Gen UI Frameworks: The VCL now offers gorgeous, powerful, customizable title bars, rounded corners, and refined High-DPI support. FireMonkey adds GPU-based rendering with hardware-aware flicker-free animation effect rendering, and Google’s Skia integration for stunning visuals. We even have full advanced support for MDI with significant enhancements over the standard Microsoft offerings.
- Web & Server Enhancements: WebBroker and WebStencils include new session management, REST API versioning, and improved logging — giving developers a smoother path to cloud-ready back-ends. We also added a customizable allow/disallow mechanism to provide fine tuning over when and how properties and objects can be surfaced into your HTML templates.You can now easily render all sorts of additional child values too making WebStencils immensely powerful yet so easy to understand your web developer can get up to full speed and have your Delphi or C++ classes, objects, and data bending to their will in less than 30 minutes. All this, without compromising the web developer’s ability to write HTML the way they do now, and with full access to all the JavaScript and web technologies they’re most comfortable with, leaving Delphi or C++ to do what it does best: provide a lightening fast, super stable, rock-solid secure back-end you – and they – can trust.
- Productivity Boosts: Smarter IDE search, AI-powered code tools, and the new versioned GetIt package manager make everyday development faster and cleaner.
Rather than patching your legacy codebase, you build forward on a platform engineered for the future.
What You Gain by Updating Apps for Windows 11
Teams that have moved to RAD Studio 13 Florence are seeing measurable improvements:
- Modernized applications: Your software easily aligns with Windows 11 UX standards — rounded corners, title-bar styling, responsive layouts, notifications — improving user satisfaction.
- Reduced maintenance overhead: Updated frameworks and libraries mean less time wrestling with deprecated APIs or DPI scaling bugs.
- Faster delivery cycles: AI and compiler improvements cut down coding time and errors – and you can choose when and how, or even if you want to use AI – with a choice of AI providers.
- Cross-platform agility: Write once to build and deploy for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and Linux without rewriting from scratch. The same code, same IDE, different targets, all native code.
- Future-proof development: A single toolchain ready for AI integration, advanced graphics, and our well-known backward compatibility so you can be sure that older code will compile and future innovations will not break your efforts made now. Almost no other development system can claim this.
Ultimately, this isn’t just a version upgrade — it’s affirmative action for modernization.
How Easy it is to Make the Leap
Upgrading to RAD Studio 13 Florence is straightforward. The IDE retains familiar workflows, so you can bring existing Delphi or C++ projects forward without rewriting your core code. You’ll find your old assets and components largely compatible, and the documentation and migration wizards help smooth the process.
Within a day of updating apps for Windows 11, many teams report being fully productive on the new version — running, compiling, and testing apps on Windows 11 without issue. Your upgrade is a one-step modernization that pays off immediately in performance, compatibility, and design capability.
Special Offers and Upgrade Paths
Now is a perfect time to act. Embarcadero currently features special offers for RAD Studio 13 Florence:
- Up to 15 % off select new licenses, giving you a lower-cost entry into the latest IDE.
- Free upgrade to RAD Studio 13 when purchasing qualifying prior versions during the promotion period.
- Bonus tools — such as the Appercept AWS SDK for Delphi (standard or professional edition) — are included to accelerate your cloud-connected development.
- Flexible upgrade paths for existing users, allowing you to carry forward your investment in earlier Delphi, C++Builder, or RAD Studio editions.
You can find these active promotions on Embarcadero’s Special Offers page.
RAD Studio Product Lead, IDE & Tooling Marco Cantu’s blog post, “Windows 10 Is No Longer Supported by Microsoft – Are You Ready For Windows 11?“, expands further on Microsoft’s announcement of end of support for Windows 10.
Updating Apps for Windows 11: Final Thoughts
As developers we don’t want our apps to be the ones that just work while competitors deliver smoother, faster, smarter experiences. When updating apps for Windows 11 with RAD Studio 13 Florence, we’re not merely catching up — we’re moving ahead. Not to mention you’ll have the very latest development environment with access to active support, exclusive professional-quality styles and premium component sets only available to users like you.
And with today’s promotional pricing, modernization has never been more accessible.
Design. Code. Compile. Deploy — and step confidently into the Windows 11 era.