diff --git a/pip/requirements.in b/pip/requirements.in
index 018127927..5e129cce6 100644
--- a/pip/requirements.in
+++ b/pip/requirements.in
@@ -26,9 +26,7 @@ fluent.syntax
 # windows only
 psutil; sys.platform == "win32"
 pywin32; sys.platform == "win32"
-# pinned due to https://github.com/microsoft/xlang/issues/717
-winrt==1.0.20239.1; sys.platform == "win32" and platform_release == "10" and python_version == "3.8"
-winrt; sys.platform == "win32" and platform_release == "10" and python_version >= "3.9"
+winrt; sys.platform == "win32" and platform_release == "10"
 
 # transitive windows dependencies
 atomicwrites; sys.platform == "win32" # via pytest
diff --git a/pip/requirements.txt b/pip/requirements.txt
index cbcf1aee2..574b29ff3 100644
--- a/pip/requirements.txt
+++ b/pip/requirements.txt
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ waitress==2.0.0b1
     # via -r requirements.in
 werkzeug==1.0.1
     # via flask
-winrt==1.0.20239.1 ; sys_platform == "win32" and platform_release == "10" and python_version == "3.8"
+winrt==1.0.21033.1 ; sys_platform == "win32" and platform_release == "10"
     # via -r requirements.in
 wrapt==1.12.1
     # via astroid
@@ -158,6 +158,3 @@ pip==21.0.1
     # via pip-tools
 setuptools==53.0.0
     # via jsonschema
-
-# manually added for now; ensure it and the earlier winrt are not removed on update
-winrt==1.0.20330.1; sys.platform == "win32" and platform_release == "10" and python_version >= "3.9"
diff --git a/pip/update.py b/pip/update.py
index cffc5128a..a74e710ec 100644
--- a/pip/update.py
+++ b/pip/update.py
@@ -15,19 +15,4 @@ print("Updating deps...")
 os.chdir("pip")
 sys.argv[1:] = ["compile", "--allow-unsafe", "--upgrade", "--no-header"]
 
-
-def after_run():
-    with open("requirements.txt", "a+") as file:
-        file.write(
-            """
-# manually added for now; ensure it and the earlier winrt are not removed on update
-winrt==1.0.20330.1; sys.platform == "win32" and platform_release == "10" and python_version >= "3.9"
-"""
-        )
-
-
-import atexit
-
-atexit.register(after_run)
-
 cli()