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Original title: Copy Apple’s Task, Windows 10 will natively support Android apps next year. Is Microsoft Really Panicking?
In the past six months, compared to Apple’s leaps and bounds, Microsoft seems to be too aggressive.
Especially your Windows 10.
You know, in less than half a year, Apple has pulled off the biggest update in Mac history.
Specifically, Apple announced in June that the Mac platform was migrated to Apple’s own chips; Five months later, Apple introduced three new Mac products equipped with its strongest M1 chip, the key is that they can all run iOS applications.
Then look at Microsoft’s Windows 10. For the past four or five years, she has been busy acquiring new users, but her progress is too slow. Even the user interface keeps going around, not to mention the advancement in the app ecosystem.
However, judging from the most recent current situation, Microsoft appears to be taking action in the face of Apple’s impact.
In 2021, Windows 10 will natively support running the Android app
The latest news programs:
Windows 10 is accelerating the adoption of the Android app ecosystem.
On November 25, a blogger named Zac Bowden stated on Twitter:Microsoft will bring native Android apps to the Windows operating system, the specific time is next year——But in this tweet, he didn’t elaborate on the details.
It should be noted that Zac Bowden is an author of the Windows Central website, which has been keeping track of information related to Windows and Microsoft for a long time, and Zac Bowden has been in business for many years, and he also broke a lot of related information. with Microsoft which was later confirmed. The credibility is relatively high.
On November 27, Zac Bowden posted more news on Windows Central.
He quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that Microsoft is creating a software solution.This solution allows developers to publish their Android application on the Windows 10 platform with almost no changes; specifically, developers can package their own Android application into an MSIX application and then submit it to the Microsoft Store.
The code name for this show is “Latte” and it will be released next year.
Leifeng.com learned that Microsoft actually announced a project called Project Astoria as early as 2015, the purpose is to help developers migrate their Android apps to Windows 10 phones, tablets, and PCs, but in 2016, Microsoft announced the abandonment of Project Astoria.
However, this time, Microsoft returned.
According to Zac Bowden, Microsoft has promised to create a program similar to Project Astoria, which has not been featured before, however, in this program Microsoft needs to provide an Andorid subsystem in Windows 10 to allow the Android application to run.
but,Although Android is an open system, Microsoft’s plan also faces many problems.
For example, the Android system has always been closely associated with Google’s Google Mobile Services (GMS); however, in this Latte Project, Microsoft is unlikely to increase support for Google Play services, because Google does not allow the installation of Play services. On devices other than Android phones and Chromebooks.
This means that some Android applications that require the Google Play Services API to run on the Windows 10 platform may require some necessary updates.
Unless Microsoft and Google come to a relevant cooperation, but the possibility is relatively small.
It is worth mentioning that there is news that after the M1 version of the Mac device was released, a developer named Alexander Graf managed to get Windows 10 on ARM on his Apple M1 by using a patched virtual machine. It runs on a Macbook and its CPU runs faster than Surface Pro X2.
Now, Microsoft has enough motivation to make changes.
Embrace Android, Microsoft is going to be real this time
In fact, Microsoft has been lusting after Android for a long time.
As we all know, Microsoft’s Windows system is the king of desktop operating systems. However, when the tide of mobile internet came, Microsoft was unable to seize the opportunity. The Windows Phone it defends has declined due to a series of Microsoft bugs. Finally he died.
However, since Satya Nadella took over as CEO of Microsoft, Microsoft has begun to deeply embrace Android.
For example, in March 2015, Microsoft announced that it had signed a new upgrade agreement with Samsung; According to the agreement, Microsoft applications will be pre-installed on Samsung devices equipped with Android systems, including Skype, OneNote, OneDrive, etc. Request.
Not only that, at the time, Microsoft also stated that the company would cooperate with 11 other Android device makers to carry out the same business.
Later, in 2017, Microsoft gradually abandoned the “mobile first, cloud first” strategy, and its cooperation with Samsung was one step closer: Microsoft released Microsoft’s version of the Galaxy S8. In addition to the original app, this version of Microsoft’s Galaxy S8 is also equipped with Microsoft Outlook and Cortana voice assistants.
Of course, in addition to the pre-installed apps,Microsoft also chose to actively connect with mobile devices based on insisting on the continued evolution of Windows 10.For example:
At the 2017 Bulid Conference, Microsoft constantly emphasized the interaction between Windows 10 PCs and other devices on different platforms (such as Android phones and iPhones), and presented the motto “Windows PCs love all their devices”;
At the Build 2018 developer conference, Microsoft released the Your Phone feature in Windows 10, which is designed to allow users to access phone content on PC.
However, while Microsoft is pushing hard, the boundaries between different operating systems and application ecosystems are very obvious. What Microsoft can do is actually very limited. In fact, due to Apple’s strict restrictions on iOS, Microsoft can only In the open Android ecosystem (thanks to Google for this), we can make a difference.
Therefore, to further promote the in-depth docking of Windows 10 and Android, Microsoft decided once again to cooperate with Samsung in depth.
In August 2019, Microsoft announced that the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 series will connect to Microsoft Windows 10. Specifically, users can use the phone screen mirroring function to map the phone screen to the PC and use the keyboard, mouse and PC touch screen directly. Interact with mobile phone applications.
In other words, in a sense, through the Your Phone function, Windows 10 can also run Android apps on Samsung phones, but from the actual effect, the running effect is not stable and can only be limited to Samsung devices.
Therefore, if the native support for the Android application can be realized on a Windows 10 PC, its operational effect will of course be better and it is not limited by the brand.
Now Microsoft has finally decided to do it.
You know, there are currently more than 2 billion Android devices in the world. If they can be connected successfully, it will undoubtedly be a great benefit to Microsoft’s Windows ecosystem.
Integration of computer ecology and mobile applications will become a trend
For the personal computer industry, 2020 is certainly a turning point.
This year, with its strong chip power, software and hardware integration capabilities, and green application control, Apple successfully migrated from Mac to Apple Silicon and thus promoted the integration of macOS and iOS application ecosystems. , until a certain point. This also indicates an ARM ecology impact on the Intel X86 ecology.
Of course, before Apple, Microsoft and Qualcomm have made similar efforts; For example, Microsoft Windows 10 is struggling to adopt Android, and Qualcomm Snapdragon chips have appeared in PC devices.
But in 2020, with great robustness and execution, Apple achieved the initial integration of the computing and mobile ecology in one step. It has achieved what Microsoft and Qualcomm did not achieve at the software and hardware level. The impact is not only reflected on the Mac.
More importantly, the launch of the Mac version M1 also predicts another technology trend to some extent: in the future, the entire PC ecosystem, including Windows, may also move towards the integration of the mobile ecosystem in some way, thus making personal computing is migrated to ARM.
This time around, Microsoft may really have to consider how to integrate with the Android app ecosystem.
Reference content of this article:(Red Lei Feng Red Lei Feng Red Lei Feng(Public account: Leifeng.com)）
https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-project-latte-android-apps
https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/11/25/windows-10-is-reportedly-getting-native-android-apps-support/
https://www.leiphone.com/news/202006/t28K1saB2LZnN1Uo.html
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