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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) by urza9814 on Friday December 21 2018, @06:49PM
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.