I downloaded and installed the application yesterday and got caught playing some silly tower defense game for an hour when I should have been working.<p>From the time I was playing around with it, it seems to work really well. I didn't notice any weirdness with the applications. They provide their own "store", so my guess is that they've vetted certain apps to make sure they work properly.<p>Once thing that I did notice is that the application is using the default program icon from Visual Studio (the one with the three colored boxes). All that work and they can't put in their own application icon?
What all these announcements forget to mention, is that they only work with DalvikVM pure applications.<p>NDK based applicatons need to be recompiled, as any native code language making use of it. So forget about most games.
Why do all these articles only mention Windows 8? I believe AMD said it works on Windows 7, too. Does it make the headline more compelling if it just says Windows 8?<p>Also, I imagine that if this is happening, most developers who already have an Android app won't bother to create a Windows 8 one, too.
Would the apps be able to run as background processes? It's a really good move by AMD. One that RIM probably should have at least considered (I couldn't resist bringing them up)