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Do people still download "setup.exe" files from random sites on the Internet and run them on their PCs? Maybe a link to some sort of "app store" (or whatever i
by 101404 6y ago
Do people still download "setup.exe" files from random sites on the Internet and run them on their PCs?
Maybe a link to some sort of "app store" (or whatever its called on Windows) would be more convincing?
- invalidOrTaken 6y ago...yes. (I should probably change my ways.)
- winkeltripel 6y ago(Microsoft could allow the store to be less terrible)
- anchpop 6y agoWhat's terrible about the store?
- mchristen 6y agoTo answer your first question, yes, quite a bit.
- Aaronstotle 6y agoYes, the Windows store is pretty awful and I feel like most Windows users have been installing software this way for a while (myself included). I believe all of my current software besides games were installed this way.
- Negitivefrags 6y agoNot throwing away 30% of your revenue is a pretty good reason to still allow people to download your product from a website.
- taneq 6y agoYes, because there's no real choice. Only installing from an app store adds a little protection, but not much. The fundamental issue is the design of desktop OS' security models, which are focused around protecting local users from other local users, not around protecting local users from untrusted software. (More than happy to hear suggestions for easy-to-use sandboxing for desktop software. The whole situation makes me quite uncomfortable.)
- Tepix 6y agoYou can digitally sign your executables to increase trust.