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 Dunbal on Thursday May 11 2017, @06:13PM (2 children)
If it can run on walled garden hardware.
Good luck with that business model. When you lock everything down you assume all responsibility for your product - and when it fails to do what the consumer needs it to do they just don't buy it.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11 2017, @06:49PM (1 child)
They will, seeing how gaming consoles sell like hot cakes compared to the vastly superior desktop platforms running open hardware.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Thursday May 11 2017, @10:06PM
Desktops are not vastly superior to consoles, as far as games are concerned. They are better for an experienced user, but much worse for a less technically inclined one. And they cost far more too - just the video card in this PC costs more than a complete console.