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Hayes is there tomorrow for the verge and I'm here with John from BlueStacks and he's gonna talk was through Android on a Windows 8 so as you can see here we've got the Windows 8 Metro UI and Android apps inside of it this is coming out later this year and the announcement today from BlueStacks is that we've cracked running Android apps in the Windows ecosystem so we're bringing 400,000 apps to Windows 8 which is a big improvement over I guess where it is at least this moment so here we're in drag racing very popular Android app so you know 1.3 billion pcs out there no one's ever played drag racing bigger than just big on a phone so it's pretty big implications there as you can see you know touch is really responsive and Windows 8 and we're not only touched you know like I said all in ones desktops ultrabooks there you go so that's drag racing our compatibility in our beta which is coming out in February right now our alpha is available for download the beta is coming out in February compatibility for beta is way high it's around 90% a lot of the things that don't work are like you know things that are built for a phone specifically you having to do with dialing and ringtones and stuff like that even accelerometer we have a you know something where it shows you the sort of angle of your device and you can actually play accelerometer apps really nicely and it's gonna come in the window still in favor yes there will be something in the Windows Store and in the main kind of channel that people download bluestacks it is a Windows program and installs like any other Windows program and will in Windows 8 as well is via our website BlueStacks comm we're also announcing a relationship with in-home which is a Taiwanese om they have an ultrabook coming out a Windows 7 ultra book in March and a Windows 8 older book late in the year that will come pre-loaded with BlueStacks and we're talking with a lot of the bigger players right now about pre-loading this that when you get your your win 7 or win 8 all-in-one ultrabook whatnot tablet it's just got everything there as you can see even in the Windows 7 look right there's much our UI and there's Windows 7 you'll have an Android apps folder you know the big thing for us when the beta comes out in February and by the time our Windows 8 edition of BlueStacks comes out it's just making it really easy to understand for the average user non-techie who doesn't want to setup you know fancy emulator it's very intuitive so you can just open your Android apps folder and there they are just like Windows programs ok so is it gonna be a way for you to sync apps absolutely that's a really critical part of this so we have something on BlueStacks Cloud Connect well and it's an Android app you can get it in the Android Market you know and whether you have an Android tablet or phone and you can actually do this now with our alpha version but it'll be even easier in our beta in February and on 1-8 you just download the app and it says ok Tom here are the apps on your Android device which ones do you want to use in BlueStacks on your PC you tick the boxes are the ones you want you hit sync that's all there is to it when you get to your PC you know right in front of you or thousand miles away your pc which has moose tax installed as a normal Windows program gets that and a little thing comes up in your sister that says Angry Birds has been installed cut the ropes and install and you can just play them and later in the year we'll be able to even sync the data between so if you're halfway through cut the rope on the plane and you get home your Windows PC interns Yuma you build a resume in full-screen absolutely