That Windows 11 and Android are experiencing a love story It is something that is indisputable, but ten years ago it would have seemed completely unthinkable. These were the days of Steve Ballmer’s all-or-nothing bets with Windows Phone and Lumia smartphones, and while there were many voices (mine among them) suggesting that the future of Microsoft smartphones lay in Android, Redmond stuck to their bet until the end , with a result we all know.

Satya Nadella has regretted on more than one occasion that he didn’t “save” all or part of the Windows Phone initiative, but at least one positive thing came out of this shutdown, and that’s that the most obvious (and, under the circumstances, understandable) The confrontation between Microsoft and Google’s mobile operating system is over. Even so, this novelty would last for some time the status quo began to translate into concrete actions, but as soon as the first steps in this direction began to be written, the story that connects today (and never better said) both operating systems began to be written.

As you already know, one of the main new features of Windows 11 (albeit with a much slower rollout than expected) is the compatibility of Windows 11 with Android apps and even (though it’s even slower) the arrival of Android apps and app stores to the Microsoft Store Store. Now, heor more interestingly, we can find it in Enlace Móvilan operating system application that allows you to create a multifunctional connection between a PC and a smartphone.

Mobile Link already lets you access your device’s image gallery conveniently from your PC, but now it seems Microsoft wants to go even further. So as we can read on the official blog, Windows 11 will show instant notifications when an image is added to the Android galleryand if needed, we can also edit them using the Windows Snipping Tool. And while it is true that editing images on a smartphone has improved a lot recently, for many operations it is more convenient and convenient to do it on a PC.

This feature was released in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3209 (KB5034855) in the insider beta channel, which means that we will have to wait a little longer before it is available in the final version of Windows 11. However, at this time we will not talk about the Canary and Dev channels , that is, about this function It seems sufficiently polished for Microsoft to put it on the beta channel. And of course it subsequently tells us that the wait shouldn’t be too long.