Microsoft is exploring new methods to seriously strengthen its app line-up ahead of Surface Phone

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Microsoft is exploring potential new avenues to remedy its issues with a lack of applications in the context of its rumored dual-screen
phone-laptop hybrid
(which is designed to still deliver a full Windows 10 experience on a smaller device).The grapevine reckons that the device has been delayed
until next year, and Windows Central also believes this to be the case
saying that UWP [universal apps] is also something Microsoft is actively pushing on Andromeda, and apps like WhatsApp are a possible
company is also considering to help improve the app situation on Andromeda, but I'm still digging for information on that
related dual-screen device is wrapped up in getting more PWAs on the boil and into the Microsoft Store (and also optimizing the Edge browser
to get better performance out of these web apps, and perhaps more importantly, to ensure they are suitably power-efficient so as not to
if Microsoft does resort to this particular Google-powered shortcut, as it were, it would almost be like admitting (another) defeat in the
long-running battle to get more apps into its ecosystem
well under Andromeda OS.As a final note, we must remember that all this is based on conjecture about a rumored device, so as ever, be
liberal with those condiments.Via MS Power User