Microsoft's plan to port Android apps to Windows is dead

Microsoft today announced it’s discontinuing efforts to offer developers an easy way of bringing Android apps to Windows 10. The decision confirms rumors from back in November that the company was considering killing the idea. Codenamed Project Astoria, the Android app porting initiative was first announced at the Microsoft's Build developer conference last year alongside similar plans to build a so-called "bridge" between iOS and Windows and help developers migrate older Windows software and web apps to the newest version of its OS. It turns out having "two bridge technologies to bring code from mobile operating systems to Windows was unnecessary," Microsoft director Kevin Gallo writes.

This announcement comes just one day after M...

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