Should Android be able to run Windows applications?

Posted by jimlynch on Mar 12, 2014 4:18 PM EDT
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Would Android be better if it could run Windows applications? Plus: Three alternative browsers for Linux, and Wil Wheaton does not like Ubuntu.

Am I the only one that thinks running Windows applications in Android is silly and unnecessary? I haven't run Windows or Windows applications for many years and I don't miss them at all. It seems to me that at some point a user who opts for a different operating system than Windows needs to make a break with Windows applications as well.

And yet I continue to see articles now and then that lament the fact that Windows applications won't run well or at all via Wine in Chrome OS or Android. Why is this a bad thing? Windows has had its day in the sun as a dominant computer operating system, but many of us have moved on and no longer want to bother with it.

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