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In my opinion, good thing about Store apps is that they're are isolated. I'm not sure how robust this isolation is, but it seems that apps can't just access ra
by drdaeman 9y ago
In my opinion, good thing about Store apps is that they're are isolated.
I'm not sure how robust this isolation is, but it seems that apps can't just access random files, etc, without a specifically granted permission.
The permission model seems to be immature (no prompts at all, not even at install time - not sure how upgrades work; and everything requested is granted by default but can be revoked later), but the very idea of app sandboxes sounds right. A random document-editing app shouldn't be able to do mess with any parts of user profile, except for the files it was explicitly provided access to.
(I wonder if there's a way to somehow hack things and re-use this sandboxing with non-Store apps...)
- digi_owl 9y agoThe FS access is not so much a permission, as the user picking a folder or drive that the app is allowed to access. Sadly doing the picking is done via the age old Win32 file picker UI, making it a royal pain to do on touch screens.
- contextfree 9y agoIt is both. There are install-time capabilities for certain known folders (e.g., music and videos libraries), and then access to arbitrary folders has to be granted by the user via the file picker. The shell provides the file picker UI so it's dependent on what edition of Windows you're using.