The initial preview arrived in the Beta channel and strangely enough, it came to the Dev channel later. While Amazon may have an initial exclusive since it's working with Microsoft on the platform, the Microsoft Store is open to other vendors, even Google if it should want to get on board. These apps are set to come from the Amazon Appstore, but it's also part of a broader Microsoft Store plan to let users get apps from wherever they want. With all of that Linux work done, it started to pave the way for Android apps on Windows, once again.Īs mentioned above, with the announcement of Windows 11, Microsoft introduced what was internally called Project Latte, its newest initiative for running Android apps on Windows. A few years after that with WSL 2.0, it actually started shipping a Linux kernel inside of Windows 10. The year after that, Microsoft introduced the Windows Subsystem for Linux, letting users run Linux command shells on Windows. Either way, Microsoft said that it was simply too confusing for developers having the option to port an Android app or to port an iOS app (Project Islandwood), so it was scrapping the former. I had heard at one point that it wasn't good enough, and that it wasn't going to be. Some reports were that Project Astoria worked so well that Microsoft thought no one would bother to make Windows apps anymore.

Project Astoria never shipped outside of previews for Windows phones, and the real reason isn't really known. Microsoft has been trying to put Android apps on Windows for seven years.

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