Microsoft is killing Android apps on Home windows 11

Microsoft is unexpectedly killing off its assist for Android apps inside Home windows 11, though you’ll have a 12 months to play video games in your Home windows pill till assist formally expires.

However when you haven’t already put in assist for Android apps, you’re out of luck.

Microsoft isn’t saying precisely why it’s ending assist for the Home windows Subsystem for Android, although discover was given as a part of an official Microsoft developer doc that Home windows Central observed. That implies that the present Android app retailer on Home windows, revealed by Amazon, will stop working.

“Microsoft is ending assist for the Home windows Subsystem for Android (WSA),” Microsoft wrote. “In consequence, the Amazon Appstore on Home windows and all functions and video games depending on WSA will now not be supported starting March 5, 2025. Till then, technical assist will stay accessible to prospects.”

Sadly, it additionally appears like when you didn’t act quick, your skill to play Golf Conflict on a Floor Professional pill is gone without end. “Prospects which have put in the Amazon Appstore or Android apps previous to March 5, 2024, will proceed to have entry to these apps via the deprecation date of March 5, 2025,” Microsoft added. (Emphasis ours.)

Amazon additionally posted a FAQ offering a couple of extra particulars. “Apps put in from the Amazon Appstore in your Home windows 11 gadgets will proceed to work till March 5, 2025,” the corporate stated. “Whereas we count on no speedy affect in your skill to entry the functions between March 2024 and March 2025, over time, some apps could not perform correctly.”

Why did Microsoft kill off Android apps on Home windows? If I needed to make a guess, it was as a result of they stunk. The true killer was the dearth of formal entry to the Google Play Retailer, which meant that customers needed to obtain apps from Amazon’s app retailer, which type of looks like a knockoff. And the Amazon retailer remains to be stuffed with what seem like junky, play-to-win video games and apps. Lastly, whereas there nonetheless are Home windows tablets from Microsoft and Lenovo, there are principally zero Home windows tablets catering to customers. All that most likely didn’t assist Microsoft’s utilization metrics.

I used to be, nonetheless, in a position to obtain the Kindle for Android app on to a Home windows 11 PC just some minutes in the past. So if you wish to check out Android on Home windows, act quick.