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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: 4, Informative) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday May 11 2017, @10:40PM (2 children)

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday May 11 2017, @10:40PM (#508374) Journal

    I'm not done yet.

    Do you even remember the bad old days when if you wanted to write an application for Windows 3.11, you needed to buy a $500 or $1,000 (1990s dollars to boot) book set and compiler?

    How fucking ignorant are you? This is that all over again, but it's even worse. Because of Digital Restrictions Management and UEFI lockdown, there's going to be no DJGPP this time around! Do you even know what DJGPP is? If not, you can go fuck yourself, because you're not qualified to be in this discussion.

    And look at you. You're running through the exact same goddamned script that feminists and white knights run through. Here's a person who's been victimized by sexist policies and even molested who is angry at being blamed for the lack of female computer programmers TO HER FUCKING FACE IN REAL FUCKING LIFE. Here's a person whose access to medical care has been fucked with before by feminists as revenge for something that was caused by OBAMACARE! I HAVE TO DRIVE OVER 300 MILES ROUND TRIP TO SEE A DOCTOR BECAUSE OF FEMINIST TRANSPHOBIA. Here's a person who IS a woman, BUT DOES NOT COUNT AS A WOMAN IN YOUR SOLE JUDGEMENT.

    But nope, here's the projection!

    You are clearly repurposing the plight of literally billions of women over the years to troll for comments.

    Apparently, somebody setting up a fake porn company and deceiving women for sex is a better person than I am!

    Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. And fuck you. And how many women have you raped lately? How many pussies have you grabbed lately? Why don't you try grabbing my pussy (because if you saw me you'd think I have one) so that when you feel an overgrown clit instead I can just knee you in the junk!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @05:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @05:29AM (#508494)

    There are PLENTY of articles on this site about feminism. Why does it have to be brought up in this article? This one is about walled gardens, wouldn't it create better discourse to stay on that topic?

  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday May 12 2017, @02:59PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday May 12 2017, @02:59PM (#508640)

    You said you weren't going to talk about gender stuff, spent one paragraph on the technical question, then rambled for 8 more about gender stuff.

    Just because we don't want to hear you turn every conversation into one about gender doesn't mean we actually disagree with you, either.

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