Again in 2021, when Home windows 11 was first introduced, there was an fascinating function referred to as Home windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) that was teased, then publicly launched in 2022. WSA permits customers to run Android apps immediately on Home windows 11 PCs.
Sadly, on March 5, 2024, Microsoft officially deprecated the feature and introduced that the Amazon Appstore plus all its apps and video games will cease working come March 5, 2025. In case you have the Amazon Appstore or Android apps put in in your Home windows 11 PC utilizing WSA, they’ll keep operable till the deprecation date.
The issue is that WSA is definitely fairly fashionable, and the transfer to deprecate the compatibility layer has been met with harsh criticism on Microsoft’s Suggestions Hub. Based on Windows Latest, quite a few customers are upset and asking Microsoft to rethink, hopeful that Android app help will proceed on Home windows 11 in some type:
“When constructing an Android app, it’s important to see in a Manufacturing setting, and WSA offered this feature by permitting you to launch a developed APK for UAT/Beta Testing.”
“It’s exhausting to not really feel pissed off if you begin utilizing an unpolished function with the backing of the worst app retailer just for it to be left unimproved till it’s yanked out from below you.”
“Simply let me have WSA.”
Lots of these customers have identified that key Android apps don’t have correct Home windows equivalents or are significantly missing in comparison with different choices. For instance, the Android model of Apple Music is considerably higher than the Home windows model.
Some individuals even opted to get a Floor Professional over different pill fashions for its means to run Android apps:
“I simply acquired a Floor Professional 9 5G to switch my iPad… and a significant component of that is because of Android apps. I’m a enterprise consumer and now not have to have an iPad. WSA has change into [an] final instrument on Home windows even when it isn’t polished. Please hold engaged on it, it has change into invaluable to me.”
However the probability of Microsoft altering its thoughts is low, as the corporate merely doesn’t make any cash from WSA in its present type.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
