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Re:Android Games on PC by pjmlp on Friday July 07, 2023 @09:27AM (#36631422)
This is basically Google's reaction to Windows Subsystem for Android.

Note that WSL was born out of the first attempt to have Android support on UWP.

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Re:Android Games on PC by ocdtrekkie on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:31PM (#36634219)
What's sad is that this Android support on Windows Mobile was actually really good. I had a demo device with an experimental build and Android apps were only as sluggish as... well... Android. A Microsoft run by a CEO with more backbone wouldn't have caved and started selling Androids.
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Re:Android Games on PC by pjmlp on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:42PM (#36635412)
UWP was shaping good, with Andromeda, Windows Bridge for iOS, XAML Islands, .NET Native, C++/CX, and then they messed it all up.

Nowadays better stick to classical Windows development, or server workloads.

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Re:Android Games on PC by sangnoir on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:53PM (#36639804)
> A Microsoft run by a CEO with more backbone wouldn't have caved and started selling Androids

Maybe Microsoft shouldn't have filed an Amicus brief in aupport of API copyrightability (lower court Google v. Oracle) while implementing Androids APIs.

If the Supreme court had ruled the other way, the brief itself would have been Google's first exhibit for willful infringement. Granted, Microsoft filed adopted the opposite view in their Amicus on the appeal to SCOTUS

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