The buzz of launching of windows 8 is over as Microsoft came up with the official release of the developer preview version of Windows 8 during the BUILD developer conference. This is the pre- beta version of windows 8 and it detailed developer tools essential to write applications for the Windows OS family. Thus, it is still not safe to run on production system.
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Adobe AIR runtime-environment allows you to run Apps developed on Adobe AIR. Adobe AIR developers use HTML, JavaScript, Adobe Flash, and ActionScript to build web applications which can also be run like desktop program.