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Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete.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 Pino P on Thursday May 11 2017, @05:13PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Thursday May 11 2017, @05:13PM (#508193) Journal

    Allow me to make the minimal changes to comment #508133 to bring it in line with FSF goodspeak:

    Significant socially irresponsible choices like this call for strong measures.

    Patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and rights of publicity are a deal between makers and users.
    They can be trumped by overriding public need.
    (I think the Library of Congress has a mechanism to do this?)

    There is a LOT of critical stuff depending on that family of operating systems.

    If Microsoft decides to orphan this stuff, then perhaps the Copyrights and Patents protecting this OS should be opened to the public.
    This might make Windows a free operating system.

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