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WindowsAndroid Lets You Run Android 4.0 Natively On Your PC

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. From China..? by mr.dreadful · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is anyone else a little hesitant to run Chinese software? I don't want to be xenophobic, but I'm a bit leery of either Russian or Chinese software.

  2. Peeling the onion by nanospook · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have an app that runs windows on my phone. I wonder if I can run Socket in there? Wouldn't that be the bomb?

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  3. Already in the SDK. by ewanm89 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The SDK can already hardware virtualize an x86 image already (via Intel HAXM on windows and Mac and KVM on Linux), and there is a 4.0.4 x86 image in the repositories.

  4. Re:http://androvm.org by phorm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any luck running Netflix on it?
    That's about the only thing other than games I run Windows for.

  5. Re:Need Windows emulator... by snadrus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I see Bochs for Android (QEMU) running WinXP on YouTube. That's really the best tool I think you'll find.

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