Microsoft Still Can’t Decide If Andromeda Is Worth the Effort

guest · Feb 17, 2019

Microsoft Still Can’t Decide If Andromeda Is Worth the Effort
The project is still pending, Microsoft watcher says
February 16, 2019
https://news.softpedia.com/news/mic...if-andromeda-is-worth-the-effort-524978.shtml

And while Andromeda comes down to both software and hardware that would eventually bring us a new product category with a dual-screen design and multi-form factor approach, Microsoft still can’t decide whether this idea is worth the effort or not.
Launch in the fall?
In the meantime, other companies seem to be more committed to this dual-screen device idea and are investing at a fast pace on bringing such products to the market.

For the time being, however, Andromeda is still an uncertain thing, and it’s pretty impossible to estimate a time when it could hit the shelves. If I were to guess, I think Microsoft might be looking at a fall 2019 release date for Andromeda, but I believe there’s a bigger chance for such a device to go live sometime next year.
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guest · Sep 18, 2020

Project Andromeda: The secret history of Windows on Surface Duo
Curious what Surface Duo was like when it was a Windows device? Wonder no more
September 18, 2020
https://www.windowscentral.com/surface-duo-andromeda-windows-core-os

We first wrote about Microsoft's dual-screen pocket PC efforts under the codename Andromeda in 2017, and I had started hearing about the project a considerable time before then. It was initially going to be a Windows device, and kickstart Microsoft's mobile efforts with a brand new, modern version of Windows explicitly built for this new form factor.
Of course, this never happened.

The Surface Duo we have today is an Android device, and Microsoft says that it went with Android because it's the right choice for the form factor. While true, it's certainly not what Microsoft had intended to do in the beginning. It came to this conclusion only after trying and failing to bring to life a new, ambitious version of Windows designed for a dual-screen pocket PC.
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I'm frequently asked about what this era of Surface Duo's development was like. So, here's what I know, based on conversations with people who worked on the project and photos and video I've seen of the software and hardware over the last four years. [...]
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