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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."
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Thursday May 11 2017, @01:55PM (2 children)
Are we going to have the browser/Netscape lawsuit against Microsoft monopolizing tendencies AGAIN?!
Nope. All MS has to say is, "You can install Chrome any time it meets our standards."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday May 11 2017, @02:39PM
Just to note: what you say was true of Netscape back in the day too. Anyone could download Netscape (or get a CD in the mail, I guess?) and install it. The issues in the original case were various, but one of them was about manipulating APIs to favor Internet Explorer over 3rd-party browsers.
(And by the way, I don't *really* think we'll see such litigation again. I just think it's an ironic historical parallel here, because obviously Microsoft probably wants to restrict Google's marketshare with Chrome, just as it was trying to do with Netscape. But given how these walled gardens now operate elsewhere, I doubt there's much anyone can do about it. There would need to be monopoly suits against a bunch of the big players, since Microsoft is here just trying to play "catch-up" in this particular kind of bad behavior.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11 2017, @03:34PM
Yeah. The lawsuit will go forward right after Google allow Internet explorer on Chromebooks.