Some enterprises are interested in running Android apps on an installed base of PCs because they are building internal Android apps before all employees have Android devices, Sharma said.

The company plans to similarly enable apps built for other OSes like WebOS and Meego to run on Windows machines, he said. While most Android apps were built for touchscreens, Bluestacks users will be able to use a mouse or mousepad to control applications, he said. They can simply click on an icon for an Android application, for instance, to launch and use it, he said. 'The traditional performance hit when you think of virtualization is not relevant.'Įnd users don't have to toggle between operating systems.

'This is not like running two copies of Windows,' said Rosen Sharma, president and CEO of Bluestacks. The company declined to share details about how its virtualization technology works but said it allows Android, which was designed for lower-powered smartphones, to run efficiently on PCs. The company, which expects to announce OEM partners next week and a partnership with Citrix on Thursday, has developed its own virtualization technology that runs a full version of the Android OS on X86 machines running Windows. Bluestacks plans to soon start offering technology that will let PC users run Android apps on their laptops and desktops.

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