The Surface Pro, which is proving to be a popular device, having exhausted its initial batch of the 128GB storage configuration, would seem the perfect candidate for some BlueStacks treatment, and thanks to this new release from the Silicon Valley-based outfit, enjoying the three quarters of a million Android titles on Microsoft’s highly-anticipated slate. Running such apps on Windows and Mac is one thing, but in order to fully emulate the experience of using apps and playing games on an Android, it’s better to run an emulator tool like BlueStacks on a touch-based device. With the Windows beta version released last year to some 5 million+ downloads and the OS X beta arriving just six weeks ago, the BlueStacks team has now compiled a version adapted to the relatively-new Windows 8 platform, as well as optimization for the Microsoft Surface Pro. BlueStacks has built its solid reputation on providing software which enables Android apps to run on a variety of different platforms besides Google’s.

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