A new feature for Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise lets you run untrusted desktop apps in isolated environments more flexible than VMs
Microsoft has shipped a new feature in Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise builds 18305 and up that let users create throwaway desktop environments for testing and developing software.
Normally, developers have to spin up a virtual machine or use a separate system specifically for running new or untrusted apps. But the new feature, called Windows Sandbox, uses the container technologies recently added to Windows to provide a high degree of isolation for individual programs, Microsoft says.
When launched, Windows Sandbox presents a Windows desktop running in a window, similar to a VM. Files and applications can simply be dragged and dropped, or copied and pasted, into the sandbox process, then run as is.
