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Except Windows store apps are strictly worse than being able to run regular Windows software in a sandbox.
One of MSIX purposes is to package old style Windows software, your regular Windows software into Windows Store sandbox, hence why I mentioned it. It is an evolution of desktop bridge, appx and msi.
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I believe it's because the virtualization support is only limited to those versions. I might be wrong though.
Isn’t this basically a virtual machine, though? I don’t see anything special that you’d need a more expensive version of Windows for. This should be using your processor’s virtualization capabilities, right?
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I really doubt that, but I can't easily argue with an anecdote, so sure. It happened, probably 15 years ago. Windows was famous for tons of installers bundling toolbars, but that's never been an epidemic on Mac. These days, Macs will not install unsigned software by default, and you can lock that down to App Store only with a single setting change, so they're certainly not getting bundled malicious toolbars from inst…
But I don't think "it just happens" on windows either (outside of OEM crapware, which granted is pure dirt). Most of the time it is unsophisticated users led to click and install things themselves. An application signature won't help.
if the OS won't let the user install the malware, that's the end of the line.
As I said in my original comment, I don't think Windows 10 is as fragile as earlier versions. A large part of this is the additional enforcement around application signing, even though it isn't as strong as what macOS does by default.
In earlier versions of Windows, it absolutely did "just happen" from a non-technical user's point of view. Linux, macOS, and (to a slightly lesser extent) Windows 10 do not allow it to "just happen".
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.
Can the app detect if it's in the sandbox? If so, then it could just behave differently in the sandbox and then when used outside behave another way. I think the Linux systemd folks have the right idea with just running processes in their own cgroup regardless, this thing where programs go mucking around with stuff all over the place should be relegated to the past at this point.
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Isn’t this basically a virtual machine, though? I don’t see anything special that you’d need a more expensive version of Windows for. This should be using your processor’s virtualization capabilities, right?
Yeah, but it uses their Hyper-V hypervisor, which is limited to the Pro and Enterprise versions for no reason other than money.
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.
I paid 13€ for an Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM key. I thought everyone is doing this as well?
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.
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.
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depending on the pirated game this might be a good thing :-P
in what game is a performance hit desirable?