Android is dead — as part of Windows. Microsoft recently announced that it will discontinue support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) in 2025. Long before that, neither Android apps nor the Amazon Appstore will be available through the Microsoft Store.
The WSA story started with a product that had both Windows and Android reeling when it debuted: the iPad. Apple’s tablet, which hit the market with a red-hot start, threatened to displace the laptop after it helped to finish off netbooks. Microsoft’s response — adding touchscreen support in Windows 8 through a tile-themed mode that eventually gave way to a tablet mode — never seriously challenged Apple’s tablet and Windows Phone failed to attract touch apps that could also run on the desktop. As for Google, the optimization of iPad apps compared to their phone-based versions was something Android never matched. While Android would continue to flourish as a phone OS, only a few major companies continue to push the envelope in Android tablets
