The relationship between Android and Windows is becoming more fluid, even more intense, than ever before. Let’s recall that in their early days, both competed for the largest share of the smartphone operating system market. I’m talking, of course, about the days of Windows Phone, the purchase of Nokia by Microsoft and the effort to create a graphically unified interface between the mobile and desktop versions of its operating system. We all remember how it ended, so we won’t make firewood from the fallen tree.

The change in Microsoft’s leadership, with Satya Nadella taking the helm to replace Steve Ballmer, marked a huge change in this regard. The Redmond giant had to make the difficult decision to close its smartphone and operating systems division (which Nadella still regrets, as he has said more than once), and yes, he ended his role in the smartphone war, It’s time to start the approaches.

The first big step in this direction came with your phone (Phone Companion), which already allowed a level of interaction not previously encountered between Android and Windows. A huge leap in quality came more than two years agowhen Microsoft replaced them with Enlace Móvil, a much more complete application that, moreover, has not stopped gaining features throughout this time, much more with Android than with iOS, due to the well-known limitations of the Cupertino operating system.

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Now we find another news, exceptionally interesting because, as we read on ZDNet, Microsoft is testing a new file sharing system between Windows 10/11 and Android. Yes, you read that right, although the end of the Windows 10 standard life cycle is fast approaching, those in Redmond have decided that their users, those with Android smartphones, can also enjoy this novelty. Good for them, no doubt.

Unlike other solutions such as Quick Share (formerly Nearby Sharing), in this case nor third-party applications will have to be resorted tosince in Windows it is deployed with Mobile Link, while in Android we will have to use Link to Windows, which you can find in this link. With both applications, we can send from the PC to the smartphone directly from the file explorer, while in the opposite direction we can directly use the Android sharing function.

At this time, this feature is only available to insiders. Windows and there is no planned date for it to move to a production version of the operating system. But there are reasons to think it shouldn’t be delayed too long.