In 2021 Microsoft declare a bold Modern opening to giveWindows 11 user access to Android appsvia the Amazon App Store for Android .
Now the software maker has announce it is winding down the capableness and end support a year from today . The newsworthiness add up from a new reenforcement written document discover Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android on March 5 2025 .
“ Microsoft is terminate bread and butter for the Windows Subsystem for Android ( WSA ) . As a result , the Amazon Appstore on Windows and all applications and games subordinate on WSA will no longer be supported set about March 5 , 2025 . Until then , technical backing will stay usable to client , ” Microsoft wrote in thesupport document .
“ customer that have instal the Amazon Appstore or Android apps prior to March 5 , 2024 , will keep on to have access to those apps through the denigration date of March 5 , 2025 . ”
The declaration comes three years after Microsoft introduce the lineament as a mean of helping Android phone users access their favourite apps without having to nibble up their earphone and interrupt productivity tasks .
At the meter of the consolidation Microsoft pitched the familiarity and effortless integration of the apps . It promise the ability to launch the apps side - by - side or with Windows apps , thanks toWindows 11‘s Snap Layouts characteristic .
Microsoft was also excited you could immobilize Android apps to Start menu or the Taskbar , while using them with computer mouse , touching or penitentiary input . Notifications from Android apps appear in the Action Center while you’re able to divvy up clipboard content between both Windows apps and Android apps .
The thought was whole , but it appears Microsoft has not received the ingestion it forestall from the developer residential district , if the integration is being curtail . Microsoft did not comment on why it has made the decisiveness to bring the interoperability to a halt next year .
