Move over, Google: Microsoft's the new Android trailblazer
Every year 'round this time, we start thinking about what Google's got in store for Android in the months ahead. And broad trends aside, the biggest questions tend to revolve around the year's upcoming Android release.
Some Android versions are mostly about under-the-hood improvements, while others focus on bits of subtle but significant polish. And sometimes, we see massive foundational changes to what the operating system represents — the switch to on-screen navigation buttons in 2011's Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich; the introduction of the modern, card-centric Material Design interface in 2014's Lollipop; and then the advent of gesture-driven navigation in 2018's Pie (and, uh, again in last year's Android 10 update).