Windows 11 Reactions: It Runs Android Apps!

 Then windows vista was not great but was great then windows 8 with the tiles and now windows 11 no pressure microsoft but this is your chance to break that we got a windows 11 reveal the newest next version of windows coming as a free. this holiday season to a pc near you now it's funny a lot of you probably know me as a mac user most of the time just.

I've used a lot of macs here at the studio but that's not actually because for the most part at work because of an so i'm perfectly happy to spend time in windows all the time and so watching their unveiling event today i actually more compelled to react to this windows anything they've done over in apple camp.

At the end of the day though it's just an operating system and you're gonna on it so we'll get to the app situation but there's plenty of interesting stuff now that they're doing here in windows so first of all the whole aesthetic is pretty dramatically so we got this new very glassy like there's a lot of shininess and transparency and glassy translucent elements things happening through here as much as it's probably.

Cringe to say it it kind of does remind of the hype around windows vista when we had that super flat windows xp and then but of course now it's much brighter and i'm just gonna stop mentioning vista now in windows 11 which might make you a little nervous if you're familiar with them messing with the start button and it's pretty good it's actually centered.

Now by default to keep with the theme windows 11 should be the center of your but you can always move it back over to the left if you want but yeah it has the glassy look it also now has suggestions for apps and documents to open that you makes a lot of sense here and then similar to how on android you could swipe over to see a google discover page or on ios how you could swipe over to.

See a bunch of widgets with information or even on the mac you could do this now on windows 11 you can swipe over and you get a pane of widgets with information customized by ai so it's and i assume it'll get better over time as it learns you but it has some level and so you can see things like weather and news stories and social posts all.

Over here and you can fully swipe over if you want to just live here for a little bit it's pretty cool then here's no doubt pandemic inspired feature microsoft teams is now built into windows natively now okay here's the so microsoft teams i get it it's their communication app they want to use it as.

But also uh microsoft owns skype and they bought skype for 8.5 billion dollars so when i when i think to like make communication easier in windows that's just what came to my head you know they're trying to promote teams and make it the default messaging app push it more among regular people so the demos they were showing in this event chat conversations with friends and family and just hopping on casual video.

Now i don't know about you but i've teams as a business app like a corporate video conferencing app because that's the only thing i've actually used it for it's literally called teams so i kind of wonder if building it into windows will actually have the intended effect

Like it's coming out during the holiday season which is in a couple more months so again we'll probably want to be mostly done with video calls by then but like zoom definitely broke through from the enterprise to like being the default video calling app for the world microsoft like i said owns skype but facetime from this recent ios update send links to people on android phones windows users can jump on facetimes now.

So yeah i don't know if microsoft teams that thing that hard hitting standard but we'll see i do love though the new window management controls this is something windows has been ahead on for a while and they're still great at now in windows 11 you hover over the and you get all these new multi-window.

Super dope for people who work with multiple windows open all the time like i do and also joanna stern has an awesome exclusive piece over on the wall posted today you should definitely read it i'll link it below and in that she mentions there will be a windows.

Memorization basically with external now so if you've ever had an external display with a windows laptop in the it's kind of annoying when you have a bunch of stuff nicely laid out on that monitor and then you unplug it and things all just appear on your.

Now they will memorize their location on that monitor when you unplug the monitor and when you plug that monitor back in to where they were that's pretty dope.

The biggest most headline-worthy new from windows 11 that caught my eye the apps so so this is the headline ready this is what can be printed up at the super simply android apps can now run natively in windows 11. so right off the that is pretty cool they're showing it's compatible with the window management and it can potentially give you access.

Millions of apps that we all know and love working perfectly on the desktop or or the two in one that you carry whatever runs windows you gotta bring popular apps to windows to get people to.

But there are some more details behind so this is made possible through a collaboration actually between microsoft amazon so actually what's going on here it's loading up the amazon app store for into the microsoft windows app store and this is all going to be run through.

Intel bridge technology so again from you'll be able to search through the windows app store like normal and when an android app in there and you click to download and install it you will have to because it's coming from the amazon app and actually the first time you ever do download and install the amazon app.

App for windows which it's going to haul it'll it's just the first time but it'll and then from there you'll be able to download all these amazon app store apps it's not a hundred percent overlap with from my experience it's pretty close but android app store loaded up into.

The windows app store that makes sense so maybe the headline should really read uh android apps that are in the amazon app store will work natively kind of on windows 11 as long as you have a basically it just feels like a super official side load it doesn't quite feel.

But they'll try to make it feel as native as possible the move to do this by the way makes perfect sense like meet the people where you want them to be with their apps that they already it's the same reason you can run android and you can run ios apps on a mac it.

They're going to be good like there's a bunch of bad examples of them not really working great they might suck for they might just have functions that are broken or just don't work as well when versus when they're actually on a mobile it's maybe the most convoluted version of it all but at the end of the day you.

You offer android apps on windows sure so those are all the big new windows 11 is looking fresh and clean with this new aesthetic and i for one am definitely on board with that part it and there's lots of other behind the scenes and under the hood changes as it's 64-bit only for one and there's.

More interesting new system requirements so there's a compatibility tool that if their pc they currently have will but i think we'll learn a lot more as the betas start rolling out and people graphics improvements and security and privacy and optimizations and all that.

But in the meantime that's windows 11. so not bad i'm impressed i think they broken the cycle the on off i don't want i kind of like this update we'll see let me know what you think in the comment section below if you have any strong on the new design or any of the stuff we've talked about here let me know if actually care about running android apps.