Microsoft has gone with the astonishing choice to end support for Windows Subsytem for Android (WSA), a virtual machine that permitted it to bring Android applications to Windows 11 through the Amazon Appstore commercial center. The tech goliath originally acquired the authority support for the versatile applications through an arrangement with Amazon in 2021, and from that point forward it has consistently refreshed the stage. According to the declaration, Windows 11 clients can not utilize Android applications after Walk 5, 2025.
The declaration was made by Microsoft by means of a note marked as "Significant" on the Windows Subsystem for Android site page on Walk 5, 2024. The organization featured that after the given date one year from now, Amazon Appstore on Windows and all applications and games reliant upon WSA will as of now not be upheld. "Up to that point, specialized help will stay accessible to clients. Clients that have introduced the Amazon Appstore or Android applications preceding Walk 5, 2024, will keep on approaching those applications through the expostulation date of Walk 5, 2025," it added. Moreover, Amazon additionally posted an update for designers making sense of what the advancement will mean for them and significant dates for them to note. As indicated by the online business goliath, designers can not submit new applications any longer. This was placed into impact on Tuesday. Nonetheless, those engineers who as of now have an application can keep on giving updates and backing till the suspension date in 2025. Clients can keep on utilizing any pre-introduced applications for the following year till Walk 5, 2025. Be that as it may, downloading and putting in new applications is absurd. The Amazon Appstore and any related Android applications on Microsoft Store won't be accessible on Windows 11 by the same token.
The unexpected move comes only three years after Microsoft previously presented WSA. While the organization referenced no good excuse for the choice, a report by Ars Technica has featured that Android application clients on Windows 11 were very low. The report specifies that this was on the grounds that Microsoft couldn't make an arrangement with Google and on second thought onboarded Amazon Appstore, which has a lot more modest choice of applications contrasted with Play Store. Further, most major application engineers as of now give either an online connection point or a Windows application independently. These reasons might have brought about WSA and local Android applications never getting on in ubiquity.