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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: 1) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday May 11 2017, @10:42PM (1 child)
No, it's not necessarily your IT department "pushing" that. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to kick the Microsoft addiction right in the nads. Except for The One Application. The One that our business is 100% dependent on. The one that ONLY runs on Windows. The one that has no rational alternative. (no, not Office.)
Your IT department is just as hamstrung as you, thanks to a developer who won't give me a platform-neutral version of its' software.
So I pay Microsoft. Unwillingly.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday May 11 2017, @11:34PM
Don't forget the part where that One Program (which is also closed source but would take years of in-house development to replace and has no credible competition in the market) has some crazy bug which you've reproduced, documented, and brought to the attention of the vendor repeatedly.
If you're lucky, a couple feminists will blame you for that bug personally, sabotage the things the software actually does right, throw you under the bus to the rest of the employees, nearly get you fired, and tell you that if they'd hired a woman to do your job instead, that bug wouldn't exist. And you didn't even have any say in purchasing that software. :(
Bonus points if you're me and the only reason you took that job as a man instead of as a woman was because you were intimidated by feminists out of transitioning to living as a woman “full time,” which would mean using the women's room, a place feminists had already warned you away from entering as a “crossdresser” on pain of charges for attempted rape. I wish I was exaggerating. :(
I think I'm going to log off and go cry myself to sleep now. :(