Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support via Android Runtime

Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by mey on Thursday January 03, 2019 @12:26PM (#18816938)

Currently everything is based on Windows Core or has been discontinued. Xbox One has moved to Windows 10/Core, was previously based on top of Windows 8. Windows Mobile has been discontinued, and even had migrated to a Windows NT kernel before it was discontinued. ( https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-windows-phone-8-fin... ) Not sure the status of Windows CE from an official support perspective (their life-cycle page isn't working for it) but their documentation lists as disconnected as of 2014.

I also don't believe any of their experimental OS projects are still active. ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/operating-sys... )

At the end of all that, you can argue that there are two operating systems at Microsoft currently. Xbox One and Windows 10. The UI of the XBox is a sufficiently large enough gap in design/functionality that I would concede it to be a separate entity.

Edit: There was a concerted effort at MS to get on to a single OS around the Windows 8/Mobile days. This was also the death of CE and switch to Windows 8 between XBox 360 and XBox one. Granted the backlash of the tablet style interface of Windows 8 was not insignificant, but you see it's refinement in Windows 10 today.

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Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support... by ianai on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:04PM (#18817347)

I think of it as Microsoft’s OSes differentiate by features aka marketing weasels. They’re essentially the same OS otherwise. MS markets this as backwards compatibility at times as well. I think that’s a good feature that Google doesn't appear to be making a priority.

Having said all of that, I’m sick of googles abandoning of products. I loved my 2013 Pixel 7. They essentially sell goods and services only to ignore them when it suits them.

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