Can Intel turn Android into Windows?

The chipmaker is ready to turn Android into a full-fledged 'client' operating system, much like Windows has been.
Dell's Venue 8 runs Android on top of an Intel Atom processor. It starts at $180.
If there were any doubts that Intel wants to embrace Android as a Windows equal, they were erased this week. Speaking at the chipmaker's investor meeting on Thursday, Kirk Skaugen, general manager of the PC Client Group at Intel, said the following: Translation? Part of the plan is to get Android running on devices, aka clients, that to date were considered PCs. You know, devices that look like laptops -- and presumably computers powering big screens -- that corporate America can gravitate to.
The reality is for the last decade we've been essentially 100 percent Microsoft on the client [but] we're starting to see in emerging markets...demands for Android.
A lot of Android apps were written for a phone...in portrait mode. A significant percentage don't even exist in landscape mode, so they can't scale to large screens, whether it's a notebook or an all-in-one. So, we're going to do a number of things here. We're going to scale Android to 64-bit. We're going to allow it to scale from Atom [processors] all the way to the high-end of the Core processor family. We're going...to enable it to deliver a great experience as we go into larger scale screens, allow mutli-windowing.
We don't yet have the ability to treat it as a full-on enterprise vPro client [so] there's a significant investment as we embrace Android.
And the multi-windowing part is interesting. He's talking about something beyond the multi-windowing currently available on Android.
Ultimately, demand will determine how Android evolves. "The strategy is very simple: we're going to support what the market desires," Skaugen said.
That likely means Android will be moving into territory that was once exclusive to Windows.