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-Windows 8 promises heady merger of the windows phone operating system with the next generation of Windows desktops. The new program BlueStacks marries android to windows. I am Seth Rosenblatt for CNET, and in this first look, we're checking out the curios Windows Android hybrid. Let's start at the beginning. Installing BlueStacks is as simple as any other windows program. Once you're running, you will notice that BlueStacks has placed a desktop gadget on your computer, click it or tap or if you're on the touchscreen to bring up the android window. Single click on an app will run it full screen. Buttons in the app cover the basics, back, show menu, rotate app, zoom, all apps and close, which returns to windows. If BlueStacks is giving you grief, you can restart it or quit it from the system tray. Using get apps, you can download new apps for BlueStacks to view your browser. Meanwhile, the BluStacks cloud connect app let's you send apps from your phone to BlueStacks, but you have to get cloud connect from the android market. Once on your phone, go back to the desktop, click get up, log in via Facebook and hit cloud connect on the left to get your pin, cloud connect then, lets you send apps from your phone to BlueStacks itself. I found this to be a hit or miss process. Apps would quickly sync to the web base cloud manager, but not always to the desktop. Still, for rappel for promises a lot of future development, this may define work. At your first look at the BlueStacks alpha, I'm Seth Rosenblatt.
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