You may still have a terrific Microsoft experience with your mobile devices even though Microsoft Windows Phone system is no longer available. You only need to find a peculiar bedfellow.
In fact, by using the appropriate applications, you can essentially turn any Android smartphone into a Windows-centric setting, complete with all of your favorite services plus the seamless phone-to-PC integration you long for. The procedures to get going are listed below.
1. Make your Microsoft-based home screen
Your home screen serves as the centerpiece of your Android setting up, and the appropriately called Microsoft Launcher software will transform that part of your user interface into the hub for your Windows-Android experience.
Microsoft Launcher appears to have the same functionality as rival Android launchers, such as the normal options for personalizing the look of the main interface, making gesture-based shortcuts, etc. Beyond that, though, it injects a significant amount of Microsoft onto the mix, including default Bing-powered searching, including access to a number of Microsoft services, with prominent position of suggested Microsoft programs.
The final distinguishing feature is this: Microsoft's version of the typical Google Discover feed is located to the left part of the home screen panel. It acts just like a card-based collection with topics like news, agenda information, as well as quick looks at your notes, activities, and most recent documents on the relevant Microsoft services.
2. Connect your Windows and Android
Okay, now Microsoft magic has been liberally applied on the home page. Now that the computer and phone are properly connected, you may enjoy the complete Microsoft-Android experience.
Microsoft Link into Windows application should first be downloaded and installed on your Android phone. Click it, and then adhere to the instructions it offers to connect your phone to your computer. It will confirm that you are signed into exactly the same Microsoft identity in both locations before asking you to locate and connect the corresponding Windows program in order to settle things on the computer side of affairs.
You can manage a lot of things from your mobile device directly on your computer when you complete all of above and approve a few key permissions.
3. Configure Windows and Android clipboard synchronization
Microsoft provides a useful option for connecting the Android phone's clipboard to your PC and making it exceptionally simple to move texts between the two platforms, though it is perplexingly hidden and different from that Link to Windows application.
SwiftKey keyboard software, which Microsoft purchasd in 2016 and keeps steadily but methodically modifying ever since, is the key point. You'll need to locate and turn on the clipboard-syncing choice after installing SwiftKey on the mobile device and going through the first setup process.
Just keep in mind that both Windows and SwiftKey require you to log into exactly the same Microsoft identity. So long as you do, everything you copy from one device should then automatically display and be accessible for paste on the keyboard of the other device over an hour, then it will remain in the system's history area.
4.Make use of Microsoft's powerful Android browser
You should download the authorized Microsoft Edge application for Android if you want to experience a Microsoft-like web surfing.
Transferring material between your mobile device and PC is simple with the Edge Android browser. In addition, it easily switches between devices during your work by automatically syncing your history, your favorites as well as collections — an incorporated system for storing content to read afterwards.
5. Activate Microsoft storage access on Android
OneDrive, a storage service from Microsoft, is already integrated into Windows and can be added to an Android cellphone with only a few taps. Wherever you go, you can easily access your documents with the OneDrive application, which is always synced.
6. Install the Android version of the Microsoft 365 bundle
The Microsoft Office applications for Android, now known as Microsoft 365 applications, have advanced significantly. Today's PowerPoint, Word, and Excel apps for Android — which can be downloaded separately or as a single Office app bundle — are feature-rich, well-executed, and enjoyable to use. Additionally, if you already live in the Microsoft world, they will provide you with a desktop-based software experience that is totally consistent and allow you to access your documents from any of your device with no need to make any conversions or adaptations.
Please be aware that in order to use the complete apps' capabilities and to utilize them at all while editing on any of the large-screen mobile devices, you must have a current Microsoft 365 membership.
Clippy is the only thing still missing at this time, and I believe we will all agree that it's actually not a bad thing.