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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!"
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.
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?
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)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
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.