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Glad to see that this is pure web: will not include support for android apps.

Kind of ironic that Microsoft is going to the step of taking googles android and hacking it onto windows, while Google is not adding android to (this version of) their OS. Not exactly sure what the irony is actually, but it’s in there somewhere.

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Doesn't Android-enabled Chrome OS require containers to run properly?

I seem to remember there being a pretty high bar (for Chromebooks anyway) of hardware requirements to be able to run android on Chrome OS machines. Even my shitty burner chromebook struggled to run the beta in dev mode.

Given that this is targeted at repurposing even older hardware, including Android would probably be creating performance issues.

Yes it does, here is the Google IO talk

https://youtu.be/pRlh8LX4kQI

I think this is gonna be used for school lab computers, like my high school's hand-me-down OptiPlexes from the local state university. Students will only need access to e-learning sites. Android app support would open up a lot of malware or viddy gaming during prescribed pretending-to-watch-course-videos time.

Microsoft adding Android to Windows seems almost like a reaction to Apple adding support for iOS apps on macOS ARM. That way if iOS apps end up becoming a smash hit on Mac, Windows can keep pace.

WSL was born of Project Astoria ashes, Microsof is only doing the second go at it, most likely due to Windows 10X failure and Surface Duo being Android based.

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