Converting Android apps to run on Windows 10 (phone)

I used to develop Windows Phone 7 apps but moved over to Android a couple of years ago. I have a half dozen apps now on Google Play. I read in the WSJ today that Microsoft has developed some kind of porting software that will make porting of Android
apps to Windows Phone 10 reasonably easy.
I'm imagining some kind of virtual machine like VirtualBox. That kind of thing can be viable but I'm wondering about apps that use things like everything in the Google Play Services Library. All of my apps use Google Cloud Messaging and
Google Maps V2 along with in-app products both consumables and subscriptions.
Is there anything published that discusses any of this?
Thanks,
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