Windows 11 will soon tell apps how old you are. Here’s how it works
THE SO WHAT
Age verification is moving into the OS layer — Microsoft’s Windows 11 APIs turn compliance and content gating into a system primitive instead of an app-by-app hack. If you build consumer or edtech software, plan now for OS-provided attributes like age and identity to become the default trust fabric you integrate with, not something you reimplement.
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