We’ve got buckets, spades and isolated apps
Ever felt a bit sick when Windows whinges about a suspicious application, but you really need to run it? Worry no more, because Windows Sandbox is inbound.
Hari Pulapaka of the Windows Kernel team shared the good news last night, trumpeting the arrival of the lightweight desktop environment that would allow whiffy applications to be run in splendid isolation.
The use case is one that we’ve encountered on occasion, where a downloaded app needs to be run, but we’re a little wary of the code’s provenance. Paranoia dictates that in those instances we’d spin up a new Windows 10 Virtual Machine using Hyper-V and run the thing in there, but we’d be the first to admit it is inconvenient, and licensing is a pain.
