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I don't think Windows 7 or mainstream Linux distros have the level of sandboxing provided by OS X. App sandbox plus the fact that many frameworks now run their
by othermaciej 15y ago
I don't think Windows 7 or mainstream Linux distros have the level of sandboxing provided by OS X. App sandbox plus the fact that many frameworks now run their engine in a separate tightly sandboxed process is kind of a big deal.
- eropple 15y agoMandatory Integrity Control provides an equivalent under Vista/7, but is not a requirement for applications. (The only applications I can think of that use it are IE8-9 and Chrome.)
- othermaciej 15y agoYes, Windows does have sandboxing APIs of sorts, but they are not used nearly as much, either by the system or by third-party apps, as Lion sandboxing. This is probably in part because the relevant Windows APIs are extremely course-grained and therefore very hard to use.
- rdl 15y agoYeah -- I totally agree that Apple's done a better job making this usable for developers and thus users, but that's what Apple does with everything. I wish someone would do a great iris biometric app for the Mac and iPhone, and would incorporate a hw tamper-resistant chip for password to key mapping (to reduce all brute force attempts to "online" vs. "offline"). iCloud kinda solves the latter by potentially letting you push auth out into the cloud.