Push Notifications on Windows Desktop Apps - windows

we are currently writing an Cross-Plattform Application for Android, iOS and Desktop / Windows with Flutter.
Our Application relies on Push Notifications to trigger actions in our application, which works perfectly fine on Android and iOS. On Windows we ship our application with an InnoSetup-Installer as an .exe. Is it possible to use the Microsoft Service (WNS) for sending Push Notifications to our application? Or is this only possible for Windows Store Applications?
Thank you and best regards
Langohr

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