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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11 2017, @04:23PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11 2017, @04:23PM (#508157)

    I want to be a misogynerd! That sounds way cooler than "Mr. President", or any of those other stupid titles. I'll bet most girls can't even spell misogynerd. Thank you kurenai.tsubasa, whatever the fuck you are! You're an inspiration.

  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday May 11 2017, @05:43PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday May 11 2017, @05:43PM (#508208) Journal

    You're welcome! One small nitpick. Here's GamerGate: A Closer Look At The Controversy Sweeping Video Games [forbes.com] by Erik Kain of Forbes. Please reference section 2 under “Interlude - Definitions:”

    The same forces behind the "Gamers are Over" campaign have batted about plenty of labels to describe their opponents in recent days and weeks. "Gross nerd" evolved quickly into "Misogynerd" which is a super convenient way to label a large and diverse group of people as both icky nerds and misogynists.

    While I don't have a primary source here to demonstrate its usage, I'm confident that womyn-born-womyn are able to spell “misogynerd.”

    Also, you shouldn't refer to adult females as “girls,” because that may trivialize them. For more information, please see In & Around Language: Girl vs. Woman [thecrimson.com] by Valeria M. Pelet of The Harvard Crimson. However, a potential rebuttal to the second-wave feminist idea that referring to a grown woman as a “girl” is inherently insulting may be found in the pilot of the 2015 series Supergirl [wikipedia.org] wherein Cat Grant dubs Kara “Supergirl,” to Kara's initial chagrin. At the same time, being a fictional woman like Xena and Captain Janeway, Cat Grant may be instead be acting as a tool of the patriarchy, having been written by men for men. So, it's complicated.