Microsoft announces Windows 11 will be able to run Android apps

Windows 11 Android App Store Source: Microsoft

What y'all demand to know

Windows 11 will support Android apps!
Android apps will come via the Amazon App Store.
Windows xi launches this fall.

Microsoft has appear that Windows 11 will support Android apps via the Amazon App Store! These apps will exist locally installed, significant they will show up in the Taskbar and Start menu and not require your smartphone to part. All your favorite hits, from TikTok to Uber, will exist bachelor for your Windows-using convenience (if you're not already using many of these apps' web-based PC counterparts).

Not much is known about how it all works, but Microsoft is using Intel Bridge Applied science, according to a printing release.

Windows 11 Android Store Tiktok TikTok (Android) on the new Microsoft Store for Windows 11. Source: Microsoft

Microsoft didn't go into much detail, but it'southward likely that Android apps on Windows 11 are powered past Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux ii. These apps will be discoverable in the Microsoft Shop.

While Amazon apps do not support Google Play, the long-term plan is to become even more Android stores into the Microsoft one. That could mean Samsung and even Google Play downwards the road every bit Amazon alone is not the cease goal.

Aslope this news, Microsoft as well unveiled a brand new Microsoft Store app, with a focus on being an open storefront for any app on Windows. This includes Win32, UWP, PWA, and now, Android apps. Windows 11 is expected to ship this fall, and that's when Android app support on Windows will exist made available to the public.

Windows 11 Tiktok Androidstore TikTok running (snapped) in Windows 11. Source: Microsoft

This Android news is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Windows eleven news from today. We learned information technology'll be a complimentary upgrade for existing Windows users, it'll heavily characteristic Microsoft Teams (poor Skype), and it'll accept a whole host of new productivity tools. With that existence said, this Android development was non expected, and then it's a welcome cherry on top of the already incredible operating system-flavored sundae.

Still, fifty-fifty with all the announcements we did receive, it's worth noting that certain items weren't appear, such as a hard release date for Windows 11 that'll allow people know exactly when they can grab the Os. And, lest we forget, there was besides a lack of Surface Neo news, otherwise known as the almost important item that could've possibly been addressed.

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