The plans have different mobile operating systems to share applications is not new and already have cases of well-known success.
But new ideas have emerged and a new step may be about to be given. Soon we will be able to have Windows applications to run directly on the Android thanks to the Wine and CrossOver.
All users of Linux familiar with the Wine. This application can bring to the Linux and Mac the many Windows applications that without this aid could not be performed.
But the team that develops the Wine has now announced that the next system to be supported would be Android and that by the end of the year CrossOver reach the operating system from Google.
If it’s simple and fast to have Android applications running on Windows and even Mac, the opposite is something that for many years was application and expected, but can only now finally become a reality.
CrossOver brings to Android the ability to run Windows applications in the same way that wine does for Linux and OSX .
At this point what is to retain the arrival of CrossOver to the market is the lack of a business model that allows Codeweavers, which develop, can keep it alive and updated.
In practice CrossOver will not be the final solution than many expected. Allow to run some Windows applications on some Android devices.
These limitations are derived from the same problems the Wine has found and who insist on not be able to be overcome.
Something that is seems be to be a major obstacle to further expansion is even used hardware. CrossOver can only be run on Android x86 systems, which are Android powered by Intel or AMD processors, which limits and access platforms to this application.
It is, however, a first step towards to bring to the Android other applications from other ecosystems, something that has long been requested.
Microsoft has walked the other way and seems to have a very well accepted by developers. It is now the turn of Android have the same treatment, and with what appears to be a potential success also great.
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