Pinging the FR Windows Ping List
And it’s been delivered in only a few decades!!
Break out the booze!!
I have already left after windows 8.
Sounds like an interesting tool, although its transitory nature limits its usefulness. I can see instances where I would use it for a quick look at an exe or file.
I received an email a week ago talking about Windows 11. I have not seen any report of it here on FR.
Do not like them, never did. The company that I worked for was all about them and I found them slow, intermittent, and inefficient and frustrating. Individual, stand alone machines are the best. Especially for hardcore users running CAD software.
Also, network traffic must be a lot more to push all of what would be on a local desk top, around the network to peoples virtual machines.
Yes. It works pretty well, still needs some tweaks around the edges as best I can tell. Installing legacy software, "leaky" software, shareware and isolating a web browser are good examples of uses for sandboxing.
As others have rightfully pointed out, that's what VM's are also used for. The difference between Windows Sandboxing and VM's though is VM's have a much heavier footprint than Windows Sandboxing does. So if you're concerned about sharing resources on the same physical PC with a VM, look at Windows Sandboxing.
All my VM's run on their own dedicated 8 Core 64GB server at home, my "daily driver" PC doesn't run my VM's.
This has been available to companies for decades through VMWare. I ran a programming staff and they used it to test in the late 90s. Then around 2010 we used it to create a cloud for our software so our clients did not need to load our software on their local computers. Its very old technology that has not been made easy for regular end users. The sandbox is really just a new interface with a better marketing scheme to help end users see the value in this old technology.
I’m still using Windows 7.
Haven’t tried it yet but, like the low overhead and original state on exit features.
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But it's easy to see why M$ is having such a rough patch. First, they haven't created an OS that people lined up at stores to buy since 2001. Second, they totally missed the boat on the handheld digital devices revolution. And third, sales of the one market segment they dominate -- desktop PCs -- has been in steady decline since 2012.
And their future ain't looking that rosy neither. Because of the dominance of Android and iOS, about 80% of kids in industrialized nations are growing up with a Linux-based OS strapped to their hip from when they get out of bed in the morning until they go to bed at night. It'll be interesting to see how that pans out once they grow up and become the Status Quo.
There is no Windows 11 and probably never will be. Anything you're seeing labeled such either is a hack job by an enterprising developer ...or a con job.
Nobody who knows is saying what Win10's successor will be called. It might not even be called "Windows anything" but it won't be called Win11. Best guess is it will be just plain Windows, with no number. And it will be a service, and as with all services, you have to pay to continue receiving it. In other words, you won't buy it, you'll rent it, and have to keep paying for it for so long as you use it.
Strange I thought they were supposed to have this feature YEARS ago.
The safe sandbox idea isnt rocket science to implement
but I guess this is more ‘microsoft’ ineptness (and NO Im not some Unix guy, just someone who microsoft has disappointed for decades)