Malcolm, First of all, I *love* Families and have it on my Kindle Fire and Android Atrix phone.
But I wonder why you'd want to run the app on the Intel Windows 8 tablet (i.e., Surface Pro) when you can run Legacy on it? Isn't that version supposed to run any program which will run on Windows 7? I do hope that someone comes up with a Windows 8 Phone or Windows RT genealogy app like Families. It's something that's really needed and not having a genealogy app has prevented me from getting a Windows phone or tablet (I've played around with my husband's Windows phone and it's *so* easy to use). Until then, I'm sticking with Android devices. Thanks, Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Malcolm Green <[email protected]> wrote: > Someone recently questioned whether a version of the Families app would be > released for Windows tablets. We currently have no plans to develop a > version for Windows but there is a way to run the Android version of the > app on Windows, using BlueStacks App Player (www.bluestacks.com). This > enables the app to be installed from Google Play and other app stores on > Windows 7 or 8. Currently it only works on the Intel version of Windows 8 > (e.g. on the Surface Pro tablet), but BlueStacks have indicated that > support for the ARM version (e.g. the Surface RT tablet) may be available > some time this year. Families appears to work well with BlueStacks. File > transfer using Wi-Fi or USB can’t be used but transfer using DropBox works > well. We’ll be interested to hear from anyone who uses Families with > BlueStacks.**** > > ** ** > > Malcolm Green**** > > TelGen Limited > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
