
Microsoft's Android apps like Launcher and Outlook. Microsoft has had some noteworthy success in getting its own apps to succeed on Android. If and when Microsoft also releases ARM-based dual-screen devices, Android apps in an Android store may be part of the scenario, too, my contacts say.

On Intel-based Centaurus dual-screen devices shipping with the still-unofficially-announced Windows Lite Chrome OS competitor, Microsoft may include support for Android apps in an Android app store. I've asked around a bit, and also hear that Microsoft is at least contemplating this scenario. A Forbes report, citing iHS Markit, which tracks supply-chain metrics, claims Android apps will work on Microsoft's dual-screen Centaurus laptops. It sounds as if Microsoft is considering enabling Android apps to run on some of its future Windows devices. That's not the end of Microsoft's Android embrace, however.

The Redmondians even gave an official blessing to Windows Phone users recently to move to Android and iOS. Microsoft offers Your Phone, an app that is meant to more tightly tie Android and to a much lesser extent, iPhones, to Windows 10. Over the past few years, Microsoft has made no bones about its decision to build apps for Android and iOS.
