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WindowsAndroid Lets You Run Android 4.0 Natively On Your PC

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 25, 2013 @06:50AM from the hey-why-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "WindowsAndroid is a very cool tool from the Beijing-based startup SocketeQ that lets you run Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) as a native application on Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8 machines. The creators tell us they have a deep background in virtualization, operating system, and graphics technologies, and have been working on the project for years. Essentially, WindowsAndroid allows you not only to execute Android apps on your Windows computer, but also use the browser, not to mention every other component of the operating system."

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i know what i'm thinking is heavily biased but! by etash · 2013-01-25 06:57 · Score: 5, Insightful

how many of you would think it twice before willingly installing software from a chinese software company -- given all the news we hear recently about chinese companies being denied access to important western markets due to security reasons and all.
1. Re:i know what i'm thinking is heavily biased but! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-25 07:13 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Sandbox it. It's an Android emulator, if it can't run in a sandbox at full mobile device speeds, it's not worth using. If it can't run in a sandbox because it requires administrator access to your boot sector, delete with extreme prejudice.
2. Re:i know what i'm thinking is heavily biased but! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-25 07:36 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  You mean the accusations without proof from the US government? The same government that's been waging a cyber-war against other countries in secret for years now? The same government who can run surveillance on their own citizens without a warrant by handing someone a post-it note?