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Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (learn.microsoft.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from [email protected]

Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android™️ (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. Until then, technical support will remain available to customers.

Customers that have installed the Amazon Appstore or Android apps prior to March 5, 2024, will continue to have access to those apps through the deprecation date of March 5, 2025. Please reach out to our support team for further questions at support.microsoft.com. We are grateful for the support of our developer community and remain committed to listening to feedback as we evolve experiences.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Meaning even the execution of apks is now deprecated or just the amazon store? :|

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The whole subsystem is being removed, so the Android container to run apks is going with it. Sad to see it go, although my usage went down quite a bit after moving away from 3rd party Reddit apps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Oh wow fuck off MS :|
Never used it except for the only time I ran an Android app on my windows pc was for Clash of Clans for which Google has a native integration for. Might have been useful later on :|