
Your results may vary, but the BlueStacks App Player for Windows is described as beta software, so hopefully performance will improve over time. The app does function both in full screen and windowed mode on my Samsung Series 9 ultrabook - but that’s not as much fun, since that laptop doesn’t have a touchscreen. I’m not sure whether the Envy X2’s low-power Intel Atom processor is to blame here, or if there’s some other problem. BlueStacks either got hung up on the loading screen or failed to show me anything other than a black screen once it had finished loading. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to play very well with the HP Envy X2 tablet I decided to test the software on. While the new version of BlueStacks is optimized for Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet, it can also run on other devices running Windows 8 (but not Windows RT). The idea is that while there are tens of thousands of apps available for download from the Windows Store, there are over 700,000 apps in the Google Play Store - including apps and games from many top developers who have yet to release Windows 8 or Windows RT apps. The website is a play on Google’s GetYourGoogleBack campaign which walks users through the steps of installing the Google Chrome and Search apps on a Windows 8 device.


You can download the Windows 8 version of BlueStacks from. The latest version of BlueStacks is optimized for the Microsoft Surface Pro, and features a full-screen user interface and a Charms menu with Android menu, back, home, and other buttons.

