"Wow! Was it easy to get the Surface Pro set up to run Android as well
as Windows? What a great idea! Now you've got me thinking, and that
sometimes is an expensive thing for me to do."
as Windows? What a great idea! Now you've got me thinking, and that
sometimes is an expensive thing for me to do."
Very easy. There are two ways to do it - Bluestacks or Windroy. Bluestacks gives you Gingerbread and Windroy gives you ICS, I tried both. Basically a program that runs on your PC. AND, Bluestacks also runs on OS X! Almost like having iOS apps on your Mac, except they are Android apps. You don't have access to all the Android apps with Bluestacks and they don't run nearly as well as they do on Android, especially games. If the Surface line came out with the native ability to run Android apps well, they would have been a tremendous hit, IMHO. Even today, there are few Metro apps, including some major ones that are missing.
This will suffice until Apple releases a tablet that runs OS X/iOS/Windows. I am salivating for that. I don't like Windows from the virus/update standpoint, so I do all my browsing either on OS X, iOS or Android. I never connect Windows to the Internet except for very limited use cases. IMHO, when Apple comes out with an OSX/iOS tablet, it is ALL OVER for MS in my book.
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