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Microsoft may have sidelined its effort to allow Android apps to run unmodified on Windows 10. But Windows users have been able to do this on PCs for over a year at very low cost - thanks to a cunning virtualization project.
DuOS, or AmiDuOS, is an emulator that provides excellent compatibility for Android apps on the desktop. And perhaps unsurprisingly it survived an interesting history of tussles with Google before staking its claim.
[...] If this is the shape of things to come, it poses some intriguing strategic questions for Microsoft. Microsoft risks losing the developer client base that it has been able to take for granted for two decades. Windows has a huge app gap, and is marginal in mobile and tablets. Ideally, Microsoft wants developers to write to a Universal API that is compatible across Windows PCs and ARM-based mobile devices such as tablets and phones. But the apps have already been written, in Java, for Android.
Credit: Posted by RS Wood on comp.misc
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 08 2015, @09:12PM
When you experience what Windows 10 and Office 2013 actually do you will wish that MS had died, or that you had switched to Linix or Apple.
Start with having the file names, sizes, and other information sent to Microsoft.
Then experience a start menu with ads.
Forced updates.
Sudden unexplained system death. See "forced updates".
Your own OS spying on you then sending the data to Microsoft. See "telemetry"
Unauthorised bandwidth use, in the range of 3GB - 6GB
etc