The company claims 'the BlueStacks virtualization technology can very easily support different permutations and combinations of operating systems and their applications,' and suggests it will be able to run Android on Windows on ARM architectures, on the Chrome OS (for x86), in a Chrome browser tab, and even run Windows on Android (now that's intriguing).

Given the Surface Pro only has something like 35,000 apps available in the Windows 8 store, Microsoft has to be somewhat pleased to see this tool, even though it means running their arch rival's operating system on their baby.Īccording to TechCrunch, BlueStacks has cut deals with AMD, Asus, MSI and Lenovo to have the BlueStacks App Player preloaded on more than 100 million PCs in 2013, and deals with Dell and HP are in the works. What's interesting is this new version of the BlueStacks App Player also supports the Microsoft Surface Pro by integrating with the new Windows 8 interface. The first version of the BlueStacks App Player was released just under a year and it's come a long way since I first tested it last April overall, it's faster and generally smoother in operation.

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