Questions from a potential buyer My old Surface Pro recently shit the bed and I'm looking into tablets to replace it.  I liked having the Windows system because I could install basically any program on it, but I found that recently I was really only using it for the web browser, media player, and word processor.  I like what I see for the Fire HD 8 because it can handle those basic functions, but I'm concerned since it's an android system.  If I understand correctly, I'll have to go through apps in the play store for everything, which is doable, but my main concern is will it let me run multiple apps at the same time?  For example, if I'm using the word processor app and I want to put on some TV in the background can I do that, or will it do the same thing my android phone does and only give me the audio for the currently open app while the others just sit in the background waiting for me to pay attention to them? 