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Microsoft now lets you run Android apps in Windows 10
- LordHeini 6y agoNice 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.
- ta17711771 6y agoHypervisor
- majora2007 6y agoThis is pretty cool, I personally don't see how I'd use it, but very cool nonetheless.
- com2kid 6y agoBoard 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.
- tibbydudeza 6y agoSamsung Dex was a stellar success.
- djeiasbsbo 6y agoTitle 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.
- bszupnick 6y agoYeah 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.
- djeiasbsbo 6y agoWhen 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.
- ChrisLTD 6y agoMS has done this before with a short exclusivity window for Samsung devices since they are a preferred partner.
- apotatopot 6y ago"lets you" Thanks Microsoft. That's exactly the way they see it, too.