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You can run Droid apps on a PC today. Download BlueStack for Windows and run all the Droid apps you want!

I'll be interested to see how the Droid OS is made to run on bare-metal Intel X86 pc's and server's ...

Always said Droid would be a game-changer if it ran on the desktop. That's the only real serious competition to Microsoft IMO. (I say that as an Ubuntu and Linux Mint fan, btw.)

Always said Droid would be a game-changer if it ran on the desktop.

No game changer at all, since Android is still a very limited capabilities OS, and no competition to any full-blown desktop/PC OS. On a PC, "Droid" will still be doing the same things it can do on a smartphone or a tablet, which means that, it's not even close to being a competitor to Windows or Mac OSes or Linux.

Now, if the PC OEMs are angry at Microsoft, and they carry on with their projects to include Android alongside Windows 8/8.1, then they'll be biting off their noses to spite their faces. If people come to believe that they can have the best of both worlds with a "hybrid" PC that runs Windows and Android "together", then there might end up being a lot fewer tablets sold in the future. A lot of those OEMs are also into selling tablets, and if people decide to go with the hybrids, then it's Microsoft and Intel that end up winning, and the OEMs will end up with fewer tablets sold. If the OEMs were smart, they'd try to make better PCs and sell those, while also trying to make better tablets and selling them too. Two sales is always better than one.