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Windows 10 Enterprise Getting 'InPrivate Desktop' Sandboxed Execution Feature (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bleeping Computer: A recent Windows 10 Insider Feedback Hub quest revealed that Microsoft is developing a new throwaway sandboxed desktop feature called "InPrivate Desktop." This feature will allow administrators to run untrusted executables in a secure sandbox without fear that it can make any changes to the operating system or system's files. This quest is no longer available in the Feedback Hub, but according to it's description, this feature is being targeted at Windows 10 Enterprise and requires at least 4 GB of RAM, 5 GB of free disk space, 2 CPU cores, and CPU virtualization enabled in the BIOS. It does not indicate if Hyper-V needs to be installed or not, but as the app requires admin privileges to install some features, it could be that Hyper-V will be enabled. "InPrivate Desktop (Preview) provides admins a way to launch a throwaway sandbox for secure, one-time execution of untrusted software," the Feedback Hub questions explains. "This is basically an in-box, speedy VM that is recycled when you close the app!"
I'm a BSD/Linux head from way way back. No way would I run it for clients at a company over about 20 people. I do IT operations for a 90,000 user international 120 year old French company, I might know what I'm talking about.
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Linux is a kernel. A.distribution is an operating system. Debian is certainly consistent across the versions, and so is SLED or RHEL. Linux is also consistent with itself in this regard, sometimes painfully so.
it's an administrator's job to know how to install and maintain software. Once a company decides to use a particular OS, it will be consistent across the company. Simple as that. The end user has to know only how to click on things and how to type in things, and that hasn't changed for a generation.
All the problems that you describe are certainly not corporate problems. They are problems of a distro-hopper who is not inclined to learn the concepts behind the technology.
Agreed. There is a hyper focus on more mobile for the customer experience but think of the power you could unleash turning that UX focus towards line of business enterprise applications. Stop building browser based applications and start building cross platform mobile apps.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
OK, serious question - how exactly are you managing the ever-shifting versions and their environments from XP-specific apps to ever-migrating methods of app data exchange?
I'm serious - bad as Linux is, at least you have some modicum of control over your destiny vs just blindly following MS, n'est pas?
Bromium is way new to the game.
Protip: The smart nerds have a Write-locked PE USB made that deploys a RAMFS and essentially ignores anything else inside the computer excepting network card.
Had an XP one for about 18 years now. Probably about time I made one for 7.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Virtualization isn't a complete security solution, but it certainly helps. Just like RAID isn't a complete backup solution, but it helps protect against one class of problem.
> This feature will allow administrators to run untrusted executables in a secure sandbox without fear [...]
Windows administrators don't fear anything. That's why they are Windows administrators!
Part of the reluctance to move to Linux is the lack of good developer tools.
Someone probably spewed coffee when they read that, but it's true. On Windows you can grab Visual Studio and build a GUI in WPF with a backend database incredibly easily. In C# there is a library for everything, but of course even if they work under Mono they won't have been tested properly. Need cloud? A couple of clicks and you are running on Azure.
Sure, Linux is great if you want to write C++ or Python and don't mind manually managing your Qt GUI and manually connecting your database to it. From a business perspective this makes no sense. They have to hire more expensive developers to do the same job more slowly.
It's easy to laugh at a deranged baboon screaming "developers developers developers" on stage, but the Microsoft development ecosystem is actually pretty good and not just because of Windows' popularity.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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That is the sort of zealotry and ignorant rhetoric that turns people away from the open source community, you do no one any favours with your blinkered approach to the world.
I use VS Code from Microsoft. I love it. It's light weight enough to be useful without a lot of work and powerful enough to get my job done. I used it when I had a windows 10 notebook, I used it on my ubuntu Dell notebook, and I use it now in my new role with my macbook pro.
Linux at the server level is a no-brainer. Even if you're running massive databases, nothing in the Microsoft orbit can claim to be so superior to open source , no, they can't. I live with a Cassandra system, and it is not the db engine that is the problem. They would have the same problems with MariaDB, MongoDB, Oracle, SQL Server, or DB2. We left Hadoop a while ago.
But the desktop user is different, and comparisons are pointless. Server side apps are different. That space is a real catfight between Microsoft and open source, and Microsoft is facing competition from the big cloud gang, though they are cloud-ing everything they can to keep up.
Claiming users can learn a different desktop, so Linux wins, kinda ignores the transtions from WIndows 3.x to NT to 2000 to 95/XP to Vista/7/8 to now Windows 10. Users *have* learned new desktops. If you leave the exit buttons on the right-hand side of window you solve 90% of that pain... The rest is manageable. Not much harder than dealing with KDE/Gnome/XFCE, and certainly simpler than moving to MacOS.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
I disagree.
Linux has it's place, but as an end user desktop in a production environment it's severely lacking. Software support for it is immature at best for the vast majority of products, and arcane at worst.
When it comes to web servers, I'll take linux in nearly every application of it, but when it comes to a corporate internal network? You're using windows.