Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)

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Post by lemoine0461 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:22 PM UTC

Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
learn.microsoft.com

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Post by mattl » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:34 PM UTC

Looks like support ended today, when did they announce this?

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Post by ComputerGuru » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:37 PM UTC

This is kind of weird since much of the tech is shared with WSL. It also makes me question the future of WSL, though that would be insane to deprecate given it has worked miracles for rehabilitating Microsoft‘s image and Windows’ usability.

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Post by theusus » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:37 PM UTC

I feel like this was released just yesterday and now they are ending the support. Why?

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Post by stephc_int13 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:40 PM UTC

I think that WSL is useful and used by many.

WSA, not so sure. Who is using it? They very likely have telemetry and thus usage.

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Post by refulgentis » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:41 PM UTC

mattl wrote: post #2

Looks like support ended today, when did they announce this?

Announced today, support ends same day in 2025.

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Post by throwaway2990 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:42 PM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #3

This is kind of weird since much of the tech is shared with WSL. It also makes me question the future of WSL, though that would be insane to deprecate given it has worked miracles for rehabilitating Microsoft‘s image and Windows’ usability.

WSL is used heavily inside MS. It’s not going anywhere.

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Post by hiatus » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:43 PM UTC

> Windows Subsystem for Android™ enables your Windows 11 device to run Android applications that are available in the Amazon Appstore.

This seems so niche it is not a huge surprise they are ending support. Though at the same time, the initial article is from August of last year so it had a very short life.

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Post by babypuncher » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:43 PM UTC

They killed any possible interest in this by going with the Amazon app store instead of Google Play.

They also did a horrible job of advertising it. This is the first I've heard about it from Microsoft since the feature first rolled out in Windows 11 2.5 years ago.

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Post by wiseowise » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:44 PM UTC

Didn’t take long.