Surface Duo with Android instead of Andromeda OS

Available a few days ago in the United States, Surface Duo marks Microsoft's return to the mobile market after years of absence due to the bankruptcy of projects launched in the past. But is this really how the Redmond group had imagined it, relying on Android for the software sector? Not exactly, at least according to the references to Andromeda OS found in the product firmware.

Andromeda OS: the operating system that was not

The platform, never made official, was nothing but a revised version of Windows 10 optimized to run on form factors such as that of the dual screen smartphone. A sort of 10X, on balance. An idea abandoned by the company in progress for reasons most likely related to the availability of dedicated applications.



The more attentive may perhaps remember that the same code name, Andromeda in fact, it had been used in 2018 to identify a mysterious device released for the following year, with characteristics and design very similar to those that now presents Surface Duo. The debut did not happen on schedule, evolving into what we all know today.

On balance Surface Neo will be more like the concept imagined years ago, based on Windows technology. However, its debut is now in doubt: it will certainly not arrive within the year and some recent moves by Microsoft seem to question its debut later on.

Source: Windows Latest