Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984
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
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 21 2018, @02:34AM (2 children)
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
Never ascribe to incompetence anything adequately explained by malice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @11:03AM
Pajeet unknown A slang / racial slur for a smelly dirty curry drinking hairy Indian that poos in the loo .