[Animats]

From the article: "Microsoft hopes to lure more people to use its new Windows 10 software on a variety of computers and gadgets by making it easy to use many of the same apps they’re already using on Apple or Android phones."

That's a problem. I don't want to run phone apps on my desktop machine. I might want to be able to sync some things with my phone, but I have bigger jobs to do on the desktop machine than on the phone. If I didn't, why would I have a desktop machine?

[craigvn]

Windows 10 will also run on phones and tablets so I think that is the audience for the apps, not the desktop.

[higherpurpose]

Microsoft tend to make a lot of bold claims, but they rarely follow through or in the same way they promised. We'll see how that bold plan actually fleshes out in reality.

[BinaryIdiot]

Hmm I'm trying to think of the last claim I've heard Microsoft made that they didn't follow through on. They've been actually really great especially in the past few years. Care to elaborate?

[Artemis2]

They may not always deliver in time, but they are coming through.

[joenathan]

What are you talking about? What claims?

[rodgerd]

> I don't want to run phone apps on my desktop machine.

In some cases I might agree, in others... why can I have a game that runs on my phone but not play it on my desktop?

[Retra]

If you run it in a browser, you already get all that, don't you?

[BinaryIdiot]

> I don't want to run phone apps on my desktop machine.

You won't. Microsoft's Android bridge is only going to work for the Windows Phone deployed version of Windows 10.