Sunday, February 17, 2013

Over night Windows 8 gets over 750,000 apps




In the summer of 2011 the company BlueStacks had announced that Windows users are going to be able to run and manage Android apps on their computers. It's been a while now, but today almost a million Android apps are available on the Windows 8 platform.

The company had gotten 8 million dolars of investment, so they could not long after that release an alfa version of their ''player''. The first beta of the so called App Player was available almost a year ago. And finaly today we have a full fledged Windows 8 version. The BlueStacks team said that they are very aware of the app situation on the Windows store so they are about to promote it to a tottaly differetn level:

Note that the Windows 8 app ecosystem is very small due to the 35,000 apps that are available on the Windows store. Some are apps, manuals, games...
This BlueStacks App Player is originaly built for the Surface Pro but it will also run on any other Windows 8 Pro computer. (I had a problem with the installation saying that my graphic card isn't supported right now, hopefully it will be fixed in the future).
For starters it's enough to go to their website and download the so called App Player not only for your Windows 8 Pc, but also your PC running Windows XP, Vista and 7, and a Mac version is also available.
Its  great to finally have Instagram running on windows, isn't it?