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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 AthanasiusKircher on Thursday May 11 2017, @02:56PM (5 children)
I'm sure there are people SOMEWHERE still using Windows 98. They're probably not doing a lot of web browsing, but some dedicated business computer that has some archaic software that works best on a pre-XP system is likely still out there. I'd imagine most of the reasonable people have since moved such things into a VM, but there's no doubt people are still running Windows 98. Oh, and probably some retro gamers.
By the way, if you really want to get it going in a VM, here's a detailed guide [dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com] that came up in a quick internet search about Windows 98 use. Just looking at photos of the installation dialogues for Win98 again makes me feel slightly ill...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11 2017, @03:38PM (4 children)
I still use Windows ME at work. It runs on an oscilloscope - the only one in our lab that can do 5GHz. Needless to say, we don't connect this to any network, and we NEVER let our IT people know about it, lest they install their remote management software and brick the thing.
Ironically, we use it more often to transfer data from floppy to USB drive, since it has both those slots. You see, the logic analyzer is even older, and only has a floppy drive...
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Thursday May 11 2017, @04:27PM (1 child)
yes, as i've gotten older, i find i have more of a floppy drive than a hard drive...
(NOT just a 3.5 incher, ladies, oh yeah, a full 5.25 ! ! !)
the seek time is atrocious, the heads are always crashing, and i can't tell you the last time i could fetch my cache...
it is hell waiting for final depreciation and the recycle bin...
8^)
(Score: 3, Touché) by choose another one on Thursday May 11 2017, @08:30PM
get off my lawn. 5.25 is not a "full" floppy. Not even close. 8inch all the way...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11 2017, @06:05PM (1 child)
LeCroy?
Back in the day at sci.electronic.design, John Larkin would tell us about his dealings with Walter LeCroy and how that dude was a slimeball in his business dealings.
In picking M$'s software for his stuff, he demonstrated poor insight WRT technology as well.
My Tektronix scope ran Linux.
(I discovered via floppy use that they didn't even license VFAT/LFN from M$, so no Borg stuff at all.)
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday May 11 2017, @08:47PM
Agilent has plenty of shit that runs Windows and they continued the tradition with Keysight. LeCroy scopes are pretty spiffy shit though, you could only wish you had one.
Sheeit, anyway, my Tektronix 2246 [barrytech.com] is a waveform digitizer with a motherfucking CRT. Get off my lawn!