Microsoft Still Thinking About Android Apps On Windows
Microsoft Still Thinking About Android Apps On Windows
There are some things that just don’t go away. Whispers that Microsoft might allow the possibility of running Androidapps on Windows, natively, have been going on for more than a year now.
And yet, the company is yet to confirm or deny this strategy.
But there are reports that Microsoft is still internally experimenting with this, and as things stand is yet to make a final decision on whether to build native support for this in Windows 10.
The most obvious hurdle is how offering a feature like this in its operating platform will hurt developer interest in Windows 10 and Windows 10 for Phones — the advent of universal apps that share a code base across devices with different form factors is something of a fresh start for Redmond.
A fresh start that could soon offer developers a user base of hundreds of millions.
Alienating developers like this, instead of luring them, at this stage, is a risk, pure and simple.
Then there is the chance of Google taking Microsoft to court over emulation, if the company allows native Android apps to run on Windows hardware without any modification.
Yes, there are third-party solutions that do this, but a move like this will allow the search engine giant to strike back at Microsoft. Legal tangles are legal tangles.
Still, sources say that if Microsoft does allow running of Android apps on Windows, the company will do so on a broad scope and not limit this functionality to a certain set (or type) of applications. Guess if you are doing something, better do it right.
Discussions are still ongoing at Redmond regarding this, with word that the company might talk about this at the BUILD 2015 developer event in April, if at all.
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