{"id":42468,"date":"2024-03-12T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T19:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42468"},"modified":"2024-03-13T09:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:10:05","slug":"microsoft-ending-windows-subsystem-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/12\/microsoft-ending-windows-subsystem-for-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Ending Windows Subsystem for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/android\/wsa\/\">Microsoft<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=39606464\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/03\/05\/windows-drops-android\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/android\/wsa\/\">\n<p>Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android&#x2122;&#xFE0F; (WSA). As a result, the Amazon Appstore on Windows and all applications and games dependent on WSA will no longer be supported beginning March 5, 2025. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/112044339881073068\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/112044339881073068\">\n<p>Never depend on Microsoft for anything.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@fencepost@infosec.exchange\/112044598073501506\">Alan Miller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@fencepost@infosec.exchange\/112044598073501506\">\n<p>This seems like the nichest of niche products since Microsoft no longer even has Android devices of its own and most Android installs run on a different cpu architecture than most Windows installs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@elkmovie\/112044467499879017\">Michael Love<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@elkmovie\/112044467499879017\"><p>Glad I didn&rsquo;t waste time supporting the Amazon AppStore for this. (meanwhile the case for a dedicated Windows port grows)<\/p><p>Also maybe helps to explain Apple&rsquo;s lack of enthusiasm for Catalyst, since I assume they&rsquo;re seeing some of the same apathy towards blown-up-mobile-apps-on-desktop that led Microsoft to make this decision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/21\/windows-11-android-apps\/\">Windows 11: Android Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/10\/windows-to-include-a-full-linux-kernel\/\">Windows to Include a Full Linux Kernel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (via Hacker News, 9to5Mac): Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android&#x2122;&#xFE0F; (WSA). As a result, the Amazon Appstore on Windows and all applications and games dependent on WSA will no longer be supported beginning March 5, 2025. Steve Troughton-Smith: Never depend on Microsoft for anything. Alan Miller: This seems like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-03-12T19:01:30Z","apple_news_api_id":"6e7f166f-81a9-4138-9946-a0d0e1358306","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-03-12T19:01:30Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Abn8Wb4GpQTiZRqDQ4TWDBg","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":[2],"tags":[248,2255,1451,219,2099],"class_list":["post-42468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-ios-apps-on-macos","tag-sunset","tag-windows","tag-windows-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42468","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=42468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42469,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42468\/revisions\/42469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}