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posted by martyb on Thursday May 11 2017, @12:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-security-issue? dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday May 11 2017, @03:52PM (4 children)

    by mhajicek (51) on Thursday May 11 2017, @03:52PM (#508139)

    My company is strictly windows 7 only.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday May 11 2017, @04:07PM (1 child)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday May 11 2017, @04:07PM (#508149)

    Good luck with that. Win7 is nearing EOL, and it also doesn't even run on the latest hardware (though some 3rd party came out with a patch for that, for now...). Sooner or later, your company is going to be forced to change: the software will have massive security problems, or 3rd-party software you rely on won't work on it, or you'll be looking on Ebay for old hardware to run it on because new hardware won't, etc.

    Try running Windows XP now for serious business use; it's really impossible. Win7 is going to be like that before long; it's already a decade old.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11 2017, @06:04PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11 2017, @06:04PM (#508219)

      Windows 7 * Service Pack 1 January 13, 2015 January 14, 2020

      2020, so a little more then 2 and a half years left for MS to pull their heard from their forth point of contact.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Thursday May 11 2017, @11:42PM (1 child)

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Thursday May 11 2017, @11:42PM (#508395)

    My company is strictly windows 7 only.

    My company is Linux/BSD only. And buying microsoft WILL get you fired.

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    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday May 12 2017, @04:45AM

      by mhajicek (51) on Friday May 12 2017, @04:45AM (#508472)

      You must not do CADCAM.

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