BlueStacks Brings Android Apps To Windows

Mike Fratto , October 13, 2011 Bluestacks is a virtualization layer that runs on Windows PCs and allows users to run Android apps. Rather than run a full Android emulator, including the UI, Bluestacks provides enough of the Android OS to run most apps as if they were native Windows apps.
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If you use Microsoft Exchange, then NitroDesk Touchdown is a must-have, and it works swimmingly in Bluestacks. Once I completed the installation, I set up my connection and email, calendar, tasks and contacts were synchronized. Like Docs to Go, I had to launch the license file before it saw the license (I took the screen shot before that). Did I mention that apps are blazingly fast?


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