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Please 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.
That is what Windows store apps and MSIX sandbox are for.
Please 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.
Prerequisite: AMD64. Does that mean it will work with my Ryzen, but no intel chips? That’s a nice win for AMD at the expense of intel if true for corporate environments.
Only Microsoft would come up with a new security feature and then intentionally and arbitrarily limit its availability to the most expensive version of their OS. This is the same company that thinks putting ads in the fucking file explorer is appropriate on an OS they charge hundreds and hundreds of dollars for.
Actually, I think it would be hard to find an enterprise software vendor who wouldn’t want to include extra functionality in their premium SKUs as a way to further differentiate them and encourage up-sell.
Please 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.
Prerequisite: AMD64. Does that mean it will work with my Ryzen, but no intel chips? That’s a nice win for AMD at the expense of intel if true for corporate environments.
Prerequisite: AMD64. Does that mean it will work with my Ryzen, but no intel chips? That’s a nice win for AMD at the expense of intel if true for corporate environments.
Prerequisite: AMD64. Does that mean it will work with my Ryzen, but no intel chips? That’s a nice win for AMD at the expense of intel if true for corporate environments.
I've been wondering for a while what was preventing a virtual machine editor to step ahead in integration and let you run the hosts' applications in a safe, virtualized environment - I've had thoughts mixing a sort of overlayfs (no idea if that exists on Windows), RAM isolation, and chroot-like (again, no idea if that exists on Windows but there must be something similar, right?)
Anyway, I'm really happy to see Microsoft stepping ahead. Most programs downloaded online are simply unsafe - sometimes just for privacy reasons! - and I often don't feel comfortable running them on my bare metal OS (not even talking of cracked software).
When I first got back on using Windows after a long time on OSX then Linux (I'm not happy with recent Apple hardware, I'm missing a whole lot of entertainment/creation applications on Linux), I assumed Hyper-V would be the best option to have a reliable, built-in hypervisor on my system. I was wrong. My goal was to setup 2 VMs: Linux CLI only do development, Windows 10 for untrusted software. It worked but the graphics integration of the windows VM sucked, and the Linux VM was extremely unreliable - I can't recall exactly what happened but crashes were common, especially in situations like sleep resume, drivers updates etc.
I would like to finish this informative comment with a hope that this new "sandbox" feature fixes most of the problems I used to experience with hyper-V. I would also love to see the others - VMware and virtualbox - to implement such feature. Hopefully, this could bump the use of virtual machines at a personal level (agreeing on dman comment to, please!, make it a standard feature) and see better performances and painless integration in the future.