It was revealed that Microsoft has begun testing the Home windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), which permits Android functions to run on Home windows 11. Beginning in the present day, this function is obtainable to Home windows Insiders on the Beta channel.

Home windows 11 can now run Android apps however there are limitations

Android apps out there for obtain could be discovered within the Microsoft Retailer, which has pages describing totally different merchandise, together with hyperlinks to obtain them from the Amazon Appstore. Android apps can operate side-by-side with Home windows software program and could be moved round inside the workspace, pinned to the taskbar, and extra as wanted.

In line with stories, Microsoft has partnered with Amazon to arrange 50 Android apps for insiders to check. Customers will be capable to work together with cell video games, youngsters’s apps, ebook readers, and extra. In fact, 50 apps are only a small a part of the greater than three million apps out there on the Play Retailer, or 600,000 apps printed on the Amazon Appstore … It’s at the moment unknown what number of functions might be out there to customers when the WSA subsystem turns into public.

Recall that the WSA subsystem is predicated on the Linux kernel and the Android 11 working system. The subsystem is a Hyper-V digital machine that performs the duties of mapping the runtime and APIs within the AOSP atmosphere to the Home windows graphical atmosphere, enter modes, and different working system parts.

Home windows 11 acquired folks , however few are prepared to purchase a brand new laptop for it

In line with on-line sources, many individuals don’t intend to purchase a brand new laptop or laptop computer to improve to Home windows 11. This conclusion follows from the outcomes of a survey carried out by the OnePulse platform.

In line with out there knowledge, 1,000 folks from the US and UK took half within the OnePulse survey. Thus, within the US, 14.6% of respondents plan to buy a brand new system working Home windows 11 by the top of the yr. Within the UK, this determine is even decrease; solely 12.4% of respondents expressed a need to purchase a pc or laptop computer with the brand new Microsoft working system. On the identical time, 22.6% of respondents plan to purchase a tool with Home windows 11 subsequent yr; however many (42%) intend to maintain the present system, later upgrading their working system to Home windows 11.

The survey additionally discovered that customers typically like Microsoft’s new software program platform in the present day. 51.6% of respondents had a constructive impression of Home windows 11; whereas solely 8.1% of respondents expressed a sharply unfavorable angle in the direction of the OS. On the identical time, about 40% of respondents had been in favor of not making untimely conclusions; till the OS turns into extra mature. Of their opinion, Home windows 11 needs to be evaluated later; when Microsoft releases a number of practical updates, eliminates recognized points; and makes beforehand introduced instruments corresponding to help for launching Android functions publicly out there.