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Re: Windows Sandbox
#2Please do not make this a Pro / Enterprise feature. I do remote tech support for my parents and would love for them to browse / use apps in a sandbox.
Re: Windows Sandbox
#3Please do not make this a Pro / Enterprise feature. I do remote tech support for my parents and would love for them to browse / use apps in a sandbox.
Agreed, but at least it isn't gated off like Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection
Re: Windows Sandbox
#4>this feature ships with Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise. No need to download a VHD!
Swing and a miss. It's interesting how Microsoft will force their slow AV onto every win10 home edition device, yet won't give actual tools users can protect themselves with.
Re: Windows Sandbox
#5Sandboxie has been providing similar functionality on versions of Windows since XP: https://www.sandboxie.com/
It's probably nowhere near as elegant as the Windows 10 feature, but it should be very handy if you have older versions of Windows!
Re: Windows Sandbox
#6Please do not make this a Pro / Enterprise feature. I do remote tech support for my parents and would love for them to browse / use apps in a sandbox.
Agreed, this sounds like a genuinely useful feature, it’s a shame to hide it and restrict it to pro users only. Things like this should be “first class citizens” of the OS and in the spotlight for marketing.
Re: Windows Sandbox
#7>this feature ships with Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise. No need to download a VHD! Swing and a miss. It's interesting how Microsoft will force their slow AV onto every win10 home edition device, yet won't give actual tools users can protect themselves with.
I've found Defender to be a definite performance hit but what's a better option? I'd rather not have the subscription costs.
Re: Windows Sandbox
#8Sandboxie has been providing similar functionality on versions of Windows since XP: https://www.sandboxie.com/ It's probably nowhere near as elegant as the Windows 10 feature, but it should be very handy if you have older versions of Windows!
Sandboxie is a UI nightmare IMO - it took me ages to work out how to launch a single program in a sandbox.
Re: Windows Sandbox
#9Please do not make this a Pro / Enterprise feature. I do remote tech support for my parents and would love for them to browse / use apps in a sandbox.
Ah, it's Pro because it's using Hyper-V.
Re: Windows Sandbox
#10Based on Hyper-V? Bummer. I use VMware Workstation at work and that’s not going to change.