damn CES 2012: BlueStacks Brings Android Apps to Windows 8

[cheguevara]

BlueStacks’ app player will bring Android apps into Windows 8, enabling more than 400,000 apps to run on Microsoft’s Windows OS.

The start-up showcased a functional demo that featured Android apps appearing almost indistinguishable from Windows-based apps in the Metro interface.

BlueStacks’ app player may help Microsoft clear one of the biggest obstacles to its fledgling platform: the lack of available apps.

“The Metro UI is beautiful, but the number one thing Windows 8 is missing is apps,” said BlueStacks CEO Rosen Sharma in a statement today. “This changes all that.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mobiledi...-to-windows-8/

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Man, Microsoft is going all in. Its funny how mere "programs" became "apps" then the whole world was set on fire silly Amedeecans<---say in Fez's voice

[leemajors]

I don't think this app has anything to do with MS.

[lefty]

Man, Microsoft is going all in. Its funny how mere "programs" became "apps" then the whole world was set on fire silly Amedeecans<---say in Fez's voice

" But Fez ... "

[Nathan Explosion]

" But Fez ... "

" I said good day. "

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I don't think this app has anything to do with MS.

"Enabling more than 400,000 apps to run on Microsoft’s Windows OS."

[leemajors]

"Enabling more than 400,000 apps to run on Microsoft’s Windows OS."

MS has nothing to do with the company who developed it or its development, and I am pretty sure they have a vested interest in companies developing native apps for their platform. That being said, they haven't barred it (yet).

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Oh, so Microsoft is open source?

[cheguevara]

MS has nothing to do with the company who developed it or its development, and I am pretty sure they have a vested interest in companies developing native apps for their platform. That being said, they haven't barred it (yet).

LOL Microsoft would never bar something like that. They are no Apple plus 400,000 apps immediately usable on Windows 8 is huge for them. P

The fact that Android apps are Java makes it very easy to make emulators. Java Virtual machine runs on pretty much anything. Including Apple hardware.

your refrigerator runs Java

[leemajors]

LOL Microsoft would never bar something like that. They are no Apple plus 400,000 apps immediately usable on Windows 8 is huge for them. P

The fact that Android apps are Java makes it very easy to make emulators. Java Virtual machine runs on pretty much anything. Including Apple hardware.

your refrigerator runs Java

Given Ballmer's previous quotes on Android, it's not completely out of the question.

[leemajors]

Oh, so Microsoft is open source?

I don't think you know what you are talking about.

[Drachen]

I don't think you know what you are talking about.

This reads like a much nicer version of Walter Solcheck "YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT DONNY"

[TDMVPDPOY]

looks like its OLED VS IPS or whatever APPLE uses for its screens....

lol apple gettin on, nothing new here