Top Alternatives to Adobe Air for Windows

Adobe Air is Adobe's runtime environment (RTE). To the average user, it will bear similarities to Java, as it does much the same thing: it provides programming options to developers, which allow their applications to theoretically be run on any platform that supports Adobe Air. Users will not notice these enhanced development capabilities, but may find apps made in Air more useful. How much more useful, though? The answer is closely entwined with Adobe's old Flash runtime environment, and how useful you found that.