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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday December 20 2018, @07:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-say-sandbox-I-say-litterbox dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18147991/microsoft-windows-sandbox-security-safety-isolation-standalone-apps

Microsoft is trying to address the fear of running an unknown .exe on your PC. While some power users set up virtual machines to check unknown apps, Microsoft has developed a simple way for anyone running Windows 10 to launch apps in an isolated desktop environment. Windows Sandbox is a new feature coming to Windows 10 next year that creates a temporary desktop environment to isolate a particular app to that sandbox.

It's designed to be secure and disposable, so once you've finished running the app in this mode the entire sandbox will be deleted. You don't need to set up a virtual machine, but it will require virtualization capabilities enabled in the BIOS. Microsoft is making Windows Sandbox available as part of Windows 10 Pro or Windows 10 Enterprise, and it's clearly aimed at businesses primarily or power users.

Technical details: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Internals/Windows-Sandbox/ba-p/301849

See also: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/windows-sandbox-marries-vm-isolation-to-container-efficiency-to-safely-run-dodgy-apps/


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 21 2018, @01:49AM (5 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday December 21 2018, @01:49AM (#777048) Homepage

    Did you get the latest corporate update lately? I shit you not, it BSOD'd with an "IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" message, which I haven't seen since the '98 days and before.

    And not only did I have to reconfigure my Edge settings all over again, but a shortcut to fucking Netflix was placed in the top of my start menu. In a fucking corporate environment where shit is locked down so tight we can't even right-click without admin's approval and even thinking about pissing away bandwidth on Netflix is a cardinal sin.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @02:16AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @02:16AM (#777057)

    "The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies." -- Robert Conquest

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 21 2018, @02:34AM (2 children)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday December 21 2018, @02:34AM (#777066) Homepage

      If you mean the Pajeets running Microsoft, then yes, I totally agree, it is a secret cabal of enemies. Otherwise it's just plain incompetence.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @05:02AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @05:02AM (#777093)

        Otherwise it's just plain incompetence.

        Never ascribe to incompetence anything adequately explained by malice.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @11:03AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @11:03AM (#777162)

        Pajeet unknown A slang / racial slur for a smelly dirty curry drinking hairy Indian that poos in the loo .

  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday December 21 2018, @06:49PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Friday December 21 2018, @06:49PM (#777271) Journal

    Did you get the latest corporate update lately? I shit you not, it BSOD'd with an "IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" message, which I haven't seen since the '98 days and before.

    I've seen more than one IRQ BSODs (and some other BSODs) over the past year on our Windows 7 systems at work, and I'm not even in IT, that's just from the four people on my team.

    Starting from Windows XP though I'm pretty sure the default behavior was to silently reboot without displaying the BSOD, so that's potentially why you stopped seeing them so much after '98. They still happened, they just weren't typically visible unless you remembered to change the settings (Advanced System Settings > Startup and Recovery > Settings > System Failure > Automatically restart). Haven't installed Windows on any of my own systems in quite a few years though so I can't say if that's still the default.