Microsoft delved deeper into providing software for Android on Thursday with the launch of Microsoft Apps, a new application that gives users of Google’s mobile operating system a one-stop shop to find apps like Word, Cortana and Bing.

Users download the app to their devices and can then browse and download any number of Microsoft apps. That’s it. There’s no special sauce or exclusive content that users can only get through Microsoft Apps (at this point), just a simple, straightforward directory of all the Android applications available from the company. 

What’s somewhat remarkable about all this is that it shows Microsoft’s growing support of and commitment to Android as a platform. The company has enough apps available for Google’s OS that it doesn’t feel like a ghost town, which is a far cry from where things were a few years ago. 

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