{"id":22974,"date":"2018-10-03T16:16:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T20:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22974"},"modified":"2018-10-09T16:49:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T20:49:34","slug":"microsoft-is-embracing-android-as-the-mobile-version-of-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/03\/microsoft-is-embracing-android-as-the-mobile-version-of-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Is Embracing Android As the Mobile Version of Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/3\/17933644\/microsoft-android-apps-windows-10-app-mirroring-report\">Tom Warren<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=18151195\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/3\/17933644\/microsoft-android-apps-windows-10-app-mirroring-report\">\n<p>The Android app mirroring will be part of Microsoft&rsquo;s new Your Phone app for Windows 10. This app debuts this week as part of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, but the app mirroring part won&rsquo;t likely appear until next year. Microsoft briefly demonstrated how it will work, though; You&rsquo;ll be able to simply mirror your phone screen straight onto Windows 10 through the Your Phone app, which will have a list of your Android apps. You can tap to access them and have them appear in the remote session of your phone.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&rsquo;s best mobile work is debuting on Android right now, and if you&rsquo;re a Windows user then Google&rsquo;s operating system has always felt like the natural companion anyway. As Microsoft can&rsquo;t replicate a lot of Your Phone functionality on iPhones, Android now feels like the only choice if you want a close mobile connection to a Windows PC.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/02\/microsoft-suspends-development-of-touch-friendly-uwp-office-apps\/\">Microsoft Suspends Development of Touch-friendly UWP Office Apps<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Warren (Hacker News): The Android app mirroring will be part of Microsoft&rsquo;s new Your Phone app for Windows 10. This app debuts this week as part of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, but the app mirroring part won&rsquo;t likely appear until next year. Microsoft briefly demonstrated how it will work, though; You&rsquo;ll be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-10-03T20:16:32Z","apple_news_api_id":"6a311dd3-3daa-48aa-889c-3ce91245e08a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-10-09T20:49:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AajEd0z2qSKqInDzpEkXgig","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[248,37,219,1030],"class_list":["post-22974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-android","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-10"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23023,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22974\/revisions\/23023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}