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Why Windows must die. For the third time. http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-windows-must-die-for-the-third-time/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-windows-must-d
by frik 9y ago
Why Windows must die. For the third time.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-windows-must-die-for-the-third-time/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-windows-must-die-for-the-th...
Was a pretty interesting read today.
- asveikau 9y agoFull of crap. WinRT/UWP is a toy application framework able to produce no better than toy apps. That is why any Windows application worth using is not "modern". The real story is that today's Microsoft can no longer execute and create something new on the same quality level as Win32 was in the 90s. Sandboxing has nothing to do with it. You can sandbox win32 and in fact they do when you submit a legacy desktop app to the store.
- contextfree 9y agoCentennial apps aren't really "sandboxed" in the sense that modern apps are - they use the same declarative installer format, but once the app is running it runs as the user with full trust and can party on the user's files and other apps etc. The filesystem and registry virtualization/redirection is for compatibility with the redirection the installer does and helps against accidental damage, but it's not a security feature.