The days of installing an emulator on your PC to play Android games are gone, at least for now. Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 11, ships with Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA).

Microsoft is pulling support for the Windows Subsystem for Android, a Windows 11 feature first released in October of 2021 that allowed Windows PCs to run Android apps alongside native Windows apps.

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If you've purchased a new laptop that uses Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite or X Plus processors, you might have noticed that the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) doesn't work, despite coming ...

If you’ve used Android apps on Windows, you’re likely using the Windows Subsystem for Android and the Amazon Appstore. However, Microsoft has announced that they are sunsetting the service in ...

Microsoft this week announced, unexpectedly, that Windows 11 would drop its Subsystem for Android that allowed the OS to run Android apps. Now, we’re getting some insight as to why the decision ...

Microsoft is ending support for its Android subsystem in Windows 11 next year. The software giant first announced it was bringing Android apps to Windows 11 with Amazon’s Appstore nearly three ...

Microsoft promised you'd be able to run Android apps as though they were native programs on your Windows machine. However, the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), responsible for handling app ...

In spite of all of this, Windows 11 did come with one killer feature. The Windows Subsystem for Android made it possible to run Android apps on the Windows desktop. Of course this new feature was ...

Microsoft announced that it will deprecate Windows Subsystem for Android on Windows 11 on March 5, 2025. Following that date, Amazon Appstore on Windows and all apps reliant on Windows Subsystem ...

If you use the Windows Subsystem for Android, then you are in for a treat. The latest update to this system brings a feature that you might have been waiting for all this while. That feature is ...

Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), which has been around since 2022, will finally be able to access Windows 11 folders like Documents and Pictures in an upcoming update. The concept behind WSA ...