I've read (rumor alert) that this is kind of what they originally had in mind with the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). This would allow windows phones to ru

I've read (rumor alert) that this is kind of what they originally had in mind with the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). This would allow windows phones to run android apps from within Windows (though several obstacles remains, since the play store and other google services are proprietary) Rumored this worked so well that Microsoft canned it in favor of UWP, because if windows could run android apps there would basically not be any need for UWP. As a result Microsoft changed focus and gave us WSL on the desktop instead. The above could very well / likely be made up but I like that explanation.