- Microsoft ending support for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
- WSA designed to run Android apps from Amazon Appstore on Windows 11
- Support for WSA will end on March 5, 2025; no impact on Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Did Microsoft just pull a Google on a Google product? Mind blowing.
Must’ve gotten infected when eating the Android sweets.
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Microsoft’s really trying to steal Google’s thunder with that move.
The amazon app store didn’t have a complete app store and it was a big workaround to get apps to run that are not on the amazon store.
They halfbaked the release and killed it becuase of that.
If they hadn’t locked into amazon appstore, I feel like they could have made it work.
Either cough up money for Playstore or better yet just make windows store compatible with android and easier to use.
I mean, Waydroid works fine with Aurorastore and even Playstore. Sure that may break, but all that capitalist “we buy licenses” BS of course costs money
The Amazon app store is the most mature app store outside of Google Play. It’s not just as simple as converting the Windows store to Android because of course they would need to develop an Android version of every app in the windows store.
I meant just allowing people to publish APKs to the windows store, not converting every app.
Although WSA let you sideload apps anyway so I’m thinking maybe Microsoft just didn’t see any big profit potential which is why they’re shutting down.
Man what in the world are they doing.
Microsoft is working hard at sucking, from what I’ve seen the past few years.
I think they’ll be happy with their OpenAI investment.
They’re probably doubling their efforts on native ARM apps
Damn, this was going to be my workaround for using authy now they’re discontinuing the desktop app inexplicably.
I knew WSL was a thing but had absolutely no idea about WSA.
WSA was.
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Was it ever actually supported? I was waiting for it to be ready to switch to Windows 11 since android emulators are all extremely heavy, I just remember it being on a preview version.
It worked well. But only with Amazon AppStore apps, so nothing useful
This is what gets me. If they actually just let people install Android apps. It might have worked.
There was also nothing stopping you from sideloading apps. I used it with Auroa Store.
I hate this. I like wsa and it was one of the main reasons I went to w11. Well… whatever, we can’t have nice things I guess
I almost panicked and thought it was WSL until I got to the Android part. Never knew it was a thing. Still sucks for developers who depended on it.
Dang, I’m really disappointed by this. It’s the reason I decided to go with a Surface Pro X over a Galaxy Tab when I was looking to buy a tablet.
That was fast
Without the only app store that matters, this was dead on day 1 for me.
Talk about a “oh no, anyway” moment. I used the feature for about two days, saw no benefit from it, and completely forgot it was even there.
