BluesStacks Can Run Android on x86-based Windows PCs

During the recent HP analyst meeting, their top management laid out a vision for a computing model in other words quite interesting and, if implemented so then, has major ramifications for the entire PC industry. Their idea is relatively simple. Create a new operating system that could be used in smartphones, tablets and netbooks, nevertheless also make that OS and all of its apps work on Windows PCs also. With this vision in mind, HP says that it will ship close to 100 million webOS customers each year, which includes its forecast of webOS on its smartphones, netbooks, laptops, desktops and in many of the printers it ships annually.

The basic idea is that you

The basic idea is that you would have a single ecosystem of apps tied to this OS and a services layer that would be synchronized at the same time. In HP's case, the synchronization comes from a research it calls Synergy. In principal, that means that when you change something on one app on a smartphone, it changes that data on the same app on your tablet or PC. The in effect big idea here is that you would have an app for some service you like, and you could use it a lot on your smartphone and that same app, with all of your personal profiles and data, will as well available on your laptop and PC as then. This would give users a consistent user interface with consistent applications and links to services that, meanwhile in theory, work at the same time seamlessly. In such a case, the key preferences and core data can be stored in the cloud and in the cross device apps.

This is a powerful concept, and HP has probably given the market a blueprint for the future of cross platform/cross device application ecosystems. HP anyway you look at it will take a leadership role with this strategy. Nevertheless, I have run across a company that could deliver a similar strategy for Android. The company is called BluesStacks, and it's based in Campbell, CA. Really, it is located in the office right straightway to mine. I heard about BlueStacks from some of the OEM's we deal with nevertheless had not to tell the truth met or seen the company principals or its research until last week.

What BlueStacks has is an in the extreme clean approach to delivering Android as a virtual OS that sits on top of x86-based Windows PCs. In the demo, they showed me, which ironically was on a 28-inch HP Smart Touch all-in-one PC, was a full version of Android running on this Windows system. There is no dual boot needed. It loads as a virtual OS, and you can switch back and forth between them seamlessly. A user could be in a Windows app and collapse it to the task bar and open an Android app, use it, and at the time also collapse it to the task bar for later use.

The fact that it uses all of Window's utilities

Even more impressive is the fact that it uses all of Window's utilities. Let's say you are in an Android app and need to print something. You just go to the top of the menu bar and hit print and it prints from the Windows print drivers. Or if you are in an Android Skype application, it uses the Windows drivers to handle the audio or video calls.

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