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Microsoft Knows Windows is Obsolete. Here's a Sneak Peek at Its Replacement.

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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 jasassin on Friday May 12 2017, @10:37AM

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Friday May 12 2017, @10:37AM (#508559) Homepage Journal

    I simply can't understand why people are so gullible as to install Win10.

    It's probably because Windows 10 is the only OS with the Edge browser and the Edge browser is the only browser that supports 4K video playback on NetFlix. Newer DirectX versions are only supported by Windows 10 (no new games). MS dropping support for updates on Windows 7. Not to mention almost all consumer hardware comes with Windows 10 pre-installed.

    Don't get me wrong, I think Windows 10 is about as bad as Windows ME or Vista. If Windows 10 didn't have the telemetry bullshit, would people still bitch as much? Now that they brought the start menu back it's really not that much different to me. Besides, if you ran Windows Update on Windows 7 in the last year or so before they turned off the updates, you have all the telemetry updates anyway. Might was well be Windows 10.

    Just an FYI this new huge update they pushed through Windows 10 really fucked up their Edge browser on NetFlix. I have to reload the page two or three times now because I keep getting "Whoops something went wrong error H7353 (or some shitty error code I looked up that tells me nothing). NetFlix works flawlessly on Chrome, but only at 720p. I really wish NetFlix and Chrome would at least support 1080p.

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