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Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement.

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 11 2017, @05:00PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 11 2017, @05:00PM (#508186) Journal

    "Even with all of the OS's running at the same time."

    I've daydreamed about that. I work with some troglodytes, and they work on crap equipment. I'd like to bring my laptop in, prop it up, and boot to Linux. Anyone looking over my shoulder will recognize immediately that it isnt' Windows. So, I offer to run Windows for them. Five different versions of Windows, at the same time, all of them running faster and smoother than the Windows on their machines.

    Of course, the trogs wouldn't even begin to appreciate that. Firing up a Mac clone at the same time might impress a couple of the more knowlagable, but I'm not even sure of that.

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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday May 12 2017, @05:03AM (1 child)

    by mhajicek (51) on Friday May 12 2017, @05:03AM (#508486)

    How's it handle OpenGL?

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    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 12 2017, @02:20PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 12 2017, @02:20PM (#508616) Journal

      Proprietary Nvidia driver, with the Nvidia GL rendering works fine for me. I know, if I were the complete Lunix nut, I'd refuse to install the blob. But, the blob works for me, and I've never yet found a real reason to distrust it. Given a few stories similar to Intel's history, I would learn to distrust Nvidia, but so far, I'm good with it.