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Microsoft Adds Store App-Only Restriction as Option in Windows 10

posted by on Thursday March 02 2017, @02:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-garden-is-now-barricaded dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Microsoft has added a setting to Windows 10 that will let users restrict new software installation to only those apps hosted in the Windows Store. The option debuted in the latest version of Windows 10 Insider, the preview program which gives participants an early peek at the next feature upgrade as Microsoft builds it. That version, labeled 15042, was released Friday.

With the setting at its most stringent, Windows 10 will block the installation of Win32 software -- the traditional legacy applications that continue to make up the vast bulk of the Windows ecosystem -- and allow users to install only apps from the Windows Store, Microsoft's marketplace. Other settings allow software installation from any source, or, while allowing that, put a preference on those from the Windows Store.

Unless Microsoft removes them, the options will appear in the next Windows 10 feature upgrade, dubbed "Creators Update," which is to launch in March or April.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Thursday March 02 2017, @02:50AM (1 child)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Thursday March 02 2017, @02:50AM (#473693)

    With the setting at its most stringent, Windows 10 will block the installation of Win32 software -- the traditional legacy applications that continue to make up the vast bulk of the Windows ecosystem

    What has legacy got to do with it? If it really blocks all applications that are not from the "Windows Store" then this blocks Win64, dot Nut, and any other executable program as well (Win16 too, you know there is a 32-bit version of Windows 10).

    Trying to make NORMAL EVERYDAY applications sound like "legacy"? Yea, that's what they want. Your sensible, useful, normal, way of doing things is oooooolllld.

    Of course, Microsoft would LOVE to control the distribution of all software - and make everyone pay for it.

    Once again, people have failed to learn from history. One of the things that made personal computers like the IBM PC so great was that anyone could write and publish software for it without having get approval from or pay licensing fees to the vendor.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @02:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @02:49AM (#477643)

    "Yea, that's what they want. Your sensible, useful, normal, way of doing things is oooooolllld."

    SystemD