If you've been dreaming of a world where Android apps are free to roam across your Windows desktop, you're in luck, because BlueStacks has just turned your reverie into reality. Today, the startup ...

Now available for anyone to download, a new test program called the BlueStacks App Player lets people run Android apps directly on their Windows PCs.

BlueStacks 2 is basically the same product as its predecessor. It’s ugly and sometimes awkward to use — I don’t have a touchscreen PC, so I had to navigate Android with a mouse — but apps ...