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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: 2) by Pino P on Thursday May 11 2017, @05:03PM (1 child)

    by Pino P (4721) on Thursday May 11 2017, @05:03PM (#508188) Journal

    an OEM Windows license is tied* to an individual motherboard

    My laptop is a Mac. Which is running, among other things, VMWARE.

    I imagine very few Macs ship with an OEM Windows license. Those that do would come from an obscure value-added reseller, not from Apple.

    There hasn't been anything actually new I needed to run under Windows since XP came out. Perhaps there will be something in the future. Can't imagine what at this point, but perhaps. It'd have to be both fabulously interesting and have no Mac equivalent.

    I guess it depends on what you consider "equivalent", particularly for things like video games. For example, would you consider Dr. Mario "equivalent" to Tetris? Or Overwatch "equivalent" to Team Fortress 2?

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  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday May 11 2017, @09:35PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday May 11 2017, @09:35PM (#508338) Journal

    I imagine very few Macs ship with an OEM Windows license.

    Yeah, I have no idea. I purchased my XP licenses long, long ago, when XP was actually a thing for Microsoft. My Macs aren't new, either. Newest is a 2009 12/24 core, 64 GB 3 GHz desktop. I'm happy with it. Which is a good thing, because I wouldn't buy one of Apple's current Mac Pros, they don't suit me at all. Supposedly they're going to do something better, but I'm not holding my breath.

    things like video games

    I don't play video games on desktops or laptops at all. I have a couple full size stand-up arcade machines – I used to design the gaming hardware, and I've written sound code and game code for them in various combos at various times. I've worked for Centuri, Bally-Midway, and a couple of boutique firms, one of which was really a Bally-Midway twig of sorts. Crazy place. I've also got most of the consoles, at least the recent ones. Basically, I prefer a dedicated platform.

    My idea of "playing" on my computers is a long session – coding, listening, more coding, more listening – with my SDR application. [fyngyrz.com] Or fooling about with my macro language. [github.com]