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posted by martyb on Thursday May 11 2017, @12:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-security-issue? dept.

Microsoft's only choice to move forward is to throw the Win32 baby out with the bathwater. And that brings us to the introduction of Windows 10 S.

Windows 10 S is just like the Windows 10 you use now, but the main difference is it can only run apps that have been whitelisted to run in the Windows Store. That means, by and large, existing Win32-based stuff cannot run in Windows 10 S for security reasons.

To bridge the app gap, Microsoft is allowing certain kinds of desktop apps to be "packaged" for use in the Windows Store through a tooling process known as Desktop Bridge or Project Centennial.

The good news is that with Project Centennial, many Desktop Win32 apps can be re-purposed and packaged to take advantage of Windows 10's improved security. However, there are apps that will inevitably be left behind because they violate the sandboxing rules that are needed to make the technology work in a secure fashion.

"A casualty of those sandboxing rules is Google's Chrome browser. For security reasons, Microsoft is not permitting desktop browsers to be ported to the Store."


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday May 11 2017, @03:21PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 11 2017, @03:21PM (#508116) Journal

    What you say is similar to why I predicted a few years back that Surface RT would fail. The entire value of Windows is one thing: the legacy applications.

    Take that away, and Windows has NO VALUE. In fact, maybe negative value.

    Microsoft's attempts to modernize it's system are the very thing that will destroy it.

    There are 20 year old business applications that people need to run. And of those aren't or can't be ported, the users of those applications will look for modern replacements. And those inevitably will be . . . ta da . . . web based! Meaning Windows just doesn't matter. On the server, and on the client.

    Apple realized that moving to a different microprocessor, like Surface RT, meant you MUST have a robust emulation solution that just works, for everything. Apple realized that when moving to an entirely new OS API, you needed to have a legacy emulation solution, at least for a few years. Microsoft has been a monopolist for so long it believes it can get anything it wants by signing executive orders . . . oh, wait.

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