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What you describe is roughly how the AppContainer used by modern apps on Windows works. Windows RT could only install apps based on this system. The problem is
by contextfree 9y ago
What you describe is roughly how the AppContainer used by modern apps on Windows works. Windows RT could only install apps based on this system.
The problem is that Windows RT was perceived to have failed for lack of compability. So they introduced Centennial which brings back compatibility with some legacy Windows apps, but also brings back most of the same problems that drove them to want to move away from legacy Windows apps in the first place
- graycat 9y agoYes, when heard about containers, with no details, and I still have yet to read any details, on either containers or how Windows security really works, then just from the word containers I guessed something like what I wrote and you confirmed. Sure, I have some legacy Windows apps. I'd be glad to log in with Administrator capabilities and, then, put those safe as a stuffed Teddy bear apps on a list of permitted apps. I'm sure there are a lot of details. One solution is just to be running a time sharing system with lots of users, each with rigidly delineated capabilities. Then do all Web browsing as just such a user. If the Web browsing lets in ransom ware, fine with me: The damage will be only for that user, and fine with me: I just delete that user. And there are virtual machine solutions. IMHO Microsoft should have gotten a good solution long ago.