While Microsoft’s Windows Phone desires are well and really dead now, sometime in the past the organization was plotting a development to the doomed portable working framework. That follow-up was referred to inside as Andromeda OS, and it was being created as the working framework for the Surface Duo. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s arrangement to make a variant of Windows for double screen gadgets never came around, yet today we’re getting a glance at an inner form of Andromeda OS and what might have been.

That look comes from Zac Bowden at Windows Central, who figured out how to get a form of Andromeda OS ready for action on a Lumia 950. Despite the fact that Andromeda OS was expected for the Surface Duo, Microsoft clearly led inner testing on Lumia 950 gadgets, settling on it a strong decision for this active.

In the two his review and the video you see installed beneath, Bowden is extremely evident that this isn’t some hole of a work-in-progress portable working framework. Andromeda OS is dead and not in dynamic turn of events, so there’s no genuine any expectation of seeing an all the more completely included adaptation send off on Microsoft’s versatile equipment anytime later on. In spite of that fairly horrid reality, this is a decent gander at the headway Microsoft made before it at last chose to deliver the Surface Duo with Android.

However the active shows us a working framework that is extremely unpleasant around-the-edges and to some degree cumbersome, clearly Microsoft arranged Andromeda OS with inking abilities at the middle. For example, the lock screen serves as an inking space, permitting clients to write speedy notes down on it that persevere until they’re deleted or the lock screen is cleared completely.

Comparably well, opening the gadget takes you to a home screen that likewise serves as a diary. Likewise with the lock screen, you can utilize this page to take notes, yet you can likewise do things like glue stuff from the clipboard or addition a picture for markup. Having the telephone open to what in particular is basically a fresh start rather than a home screen loaded with application symbols is an intriguing thought and one that we’re most likely never going to see on different gadgets.

Andromeda OS additionally includes a Start menu suggestive of Windows Phone, and that implies that it has those natural Live Tiles. Bowden additionally flaunts the different motion controls remembered for Andromeda OS, swiping from the left to gather the previously mentioned Start menu and from the option to raise Cortana and notices. Swiping down pulls up the Control Center, which will look natural to the individuals who are presently utilizing Windows 11.

We’re likewise given a concise demo of what Andromeda OS may have resembled on a real double screen gadget, however since that demo is additionally on a Lumia 950, we tragically don’t get the full insight. In any case, it’s intriguing to see what may have been before Microsoft chosen to can Andromeda OS completely and change to Android for the Surface Duo.

While there’s no possibility we’ll see this venture restored for future Microsoft equipment, there is generally the possibility that a few individual elements could advance toward the Surface Duo. And, after its all said and done, it’s presumably best to see the value in this as a relic of the past rather than something that may illuminate Microsoft’s future endeavors, as disillusioning as that might be for the individuals who miss Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile.