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Surprise - Dev channel members (who were there because they wanted Android apps as soon as possible) are pissed. It also doesn't help that Microsoft removed the ability to switch to the Beta channel from the Dev channel a few months ago without notice.
In classic Microsoft scattershot leadership, the preview is only available to Beta channel members, but not Dev channel members. Typically, new features would go Dev > Beta > RC > Final. This is going Beta > Dev > RC > release. Surprise - Dev channel members (who were there because they wanted Android apps as soon as possible) are pissed. It also doesn't help that Microsoft removed the ability to switch to the Beta c…
Has anyone tried sideloading android apps yet? I assume you'd need MicroG for anything Google dependent.
> You can see notifications from Android apps notifications in the Action Center or share your clipboard between a Windows app and an Android app. This is a very interesting feature. Integrated notifications means you can run any android messenger and keep it minimised.
That sounds like it would be a pretty heavyweight solution to a lightweight problem.
(caveat i worked at MS for years but now don't) One of Microsoft's greatest strengths on show here. Embrace and extend. They made a mess of trying to build an app business with windows RT, Windows 8, windows 10. They can't get into the apple appstore ecosystem so they pivot to embracing the Android ecosystem to have an app catalog on windows. (Ironically what google did with Android was the play that Microsoft should…
The Windows Android layer can only install from the amazon store and does not include any google play stuff, right? Is the amazon android app ecosystem that much better than the current windows store?
What do people use features like this for?
> To enable these types of experiences, we are introducing a new component on top of Windows 11 called Windows Subsystem for Android™, which powers the Amazon Appstore and its catalog. The Subsystem includes the Linux kernel and the Android OS based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) version 11. > The Windows Subsystem for Android is available across the full spectrum of Windows processor types (AMD, Intel, an…
This partnership is a win win between Microsoft and Amazon. Users should be able to install fdroid too
> To enable these types of experiences, we are introducing a new component on top of Windows 11 called Windows Subsystem for Android™, which powers the Amazon Appstore and its catalog. The Subsystem includes the Linux kernel and the Android OS based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) version 11. > The Windows Subsystem for Android is available across the full spectrum of Windows processor types (AMD, Intel, an…
This partnership is a win win between Microsoft and Amazon. Users should be able to install fdroid too
(caveat i worked at MS for years but now don't) One of Microsoft's greatest strengths on show here. Embrace and extend. They made a mess of trying to build an app business with windows RT, Windows 8, windows 10. They can't get into the apple appstore ecosystem so they pivot to embracing the Android ecosystem to have an app catalog on windows. (Ironically what google did with Android was the play that Microsoft should…
Windows CE was certainly an interesting platform. The problem was it tried to be some sort of ... hybrid. On one side it tried to have some semblance of being Windows (not just in terms of UI but also in terms of APIs), on the other side it was different enough to not be Windows (weird CPU architectures such as Hitachi's SuperH, for one). Not to mention unlike Apple's Xcode and Android Studio, developing for Windows CE required paying through the nose for Visual Studio and addons (or pirating them).
And then, once the iPhone and Android hit the market, Microsoft just stopped development or even trying to catch up... and when they entered the field again, they messed it up completely.