Microsoft now lets you run Android apps in Windows 10

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Title seems to be clickbait, from the article:

> This feature is only supported on select Samsung Galaxy devices and allows Android to stream apps to your Windows 10 devices.

Yeah I had the same disappointed feeling but maybe it's a sign of features to come? This is a small initial rollout of a future more expansive feature?

Just conjecture.

When I read the title I thought that they were announcing something like Anbox, which runs android apps in containers. But it is actually just about mirroring the android screen... I'm not sure why that would have be a feature baked into the operating system. Seems more like a marketing strategy imo.

MS has done this before with a short exclusivity window for Samsung devices since they are a preferred partner.

"lets you" Thanks Microsoft. That's exactly the way they see it, too.

Nice now i can stream Candy Crush from my phone to windows.

Oh wait...

Seriously though, is Microsoft working on making Windows a VM for everything?

First Linux, now Android.

Hypervisor

This is pretty cool, I personally don't see how I'd use it, but very cool nonetheless.

Board games that have an Android version and not a PC version, or for which you've already bought the phone version and you don't want to buy it again on PC.
At least that's been my use cases for other similar solutions.
Phones have an incredibly rich ecosystem of apps that don't always have PC ports.

Samsung Dex was a stellar success.

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