On March 5, 2024, Microsoft announced that WSA would be deprecated and fully removed by March 5, 2025. The official reasons cited:
Key features included:
: It ran on a lightweight version of Hyper-V, requiring the "Virtual Machine Platform" to be enabled in Windows features.
The was a component of Windows 11 that allowed users to run Android applications natively on their PC alongside standard Windows apps. While originally a flagship feature, Microsoft officially announced that support for WSA ended in March 2025 , and it has since been removed from the Microsoft Store. Core Functionality