While Windows 11 was released in October 2021, the Windows Subsystem for Android did not become generally available until February 2022 -- four months after the initial Windows 11 release.

Microsoft announced today that it is ending support for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) on March 5, 2025.

Microsoft is planning to end support for its Windows Subsystem for Android component in Windows 11.

The Windows Subsystem for Android is an optional Windows 11 feature that allows you to run Android apps on a PC as if they were native apps.

Microsoft is pulling support for the Windows Subsystem for Android, a Windows 11 feature first released in October of 2021 that allowed Windows PCs to run Android apps alongside native Windows apps.

Microsoft just shipped an update for the Windows Subsystem for Android on Windows 11. The latest build of WSA updates it to Android 13 and includes several other improvements.

Windows Subsystem for Android works like Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which Microsoft introduced in 2016. Both WSL and WSA use virtualization to install and run apps.

The new Windows Subsystem for Android update comes with features that the Android community will find quite useful.

Microsoft announced that Windows Subsystem for Android will be deprecated in March 2025, but Amazon has already stopped its Appstore from being downloadable on Windows 11.

Microsoft has updated the Windows Subsystem for Android in Windows 11 to make telemetry collection optional and announced an upgrade to Android 12.1.

Microsoft has improved networking on the Windows Subsystem for Android, so that Android apps can connect to devices on the same network as a Windows PC.

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