Comment by chaosharmonic

> Pedantically, their resources were never combined. They independently tried to compete, and they independently failed.

I'm talking about Windows Subsystem for Android, which leveraged Amazon's app store.

Though honestly, their application strategy since Windows 8 has been fascinating. Watching them:

- ship Linux and Android app support

- replace their first-party browser with a Chrome derivative (and inherit all the PWA support of its parent)

- ship first-party support for .NET and PowerShell on other platforms

- ship React Native builds for Windows and macOS

...all suggest they're really trying not to get into the same hole as what happened with Metro, by giving you a lot of different ways to build something that can then run on modern versions of Windows -- regardless of whether that's even necessarily your goal.