That's not even a paraphrase of what I said. Even if it was, using quotation marks for a paraphrase without calling it out is questionable.
Tooling does nothing for users if they are not provided an interface to easily use it, windows instead remains a malware target by design. Of course if they actually did that and put bug bounties on container escapes similar to Chrome web apps they'd likely go bankrupt, way too much crusty code behind win32.
That said, I was kind of assuming they could have a friendly windows with only UWP apps as the core OS, while running the rest on VMs (just like Chromebook has the core OS with web apps, with in the future SteamOS on VM). I hadn't yet noticed UWP was on the way out though, the more things change for Windows, the more things stay the same, use the new stuff and you will get fucked.
Chromebook, ignoring datamining, is shaping up to be almost everything a modern laptop/desktop should be for normies. A hardware certification model which while open to input from third party manufacturers is tightly enough controlled it gives a limited amount of platforms allowing good QA and pain free updates. A core OS which is cloud oriented to make account transfer across devices pain free. A core OS with one of the best app sandboxes in the industry, far ahead of what appcontainer can ever be due to better design not being held back by 3 decades of cruft. In the future, a VM maintained security boundary to run the most important crufty applications ... games
That's how you make something which just werks. Please for gods sake learn to follow their example properly Microsoft, Windows SE ain't it, I don't really want a future condemned to chose between Google or Apple.
Tooling does nothing for users if they are not provided an interface to easily use it, windows instead remains a malware target by design. Of course if they actually did that and put bug bounties on container escapes similar to Chrome web apps they'd likely go bankrupt, way too much crusty code behind win32.
That said, I was kind of assuming they could have a friendly windows with only UWP apps as the core OS, while running the rest on VMs (just like Chromebook has the core OS with web apps, with in the future SteamOS on VM). I hadn't yet noticed UWP was on the way out though, the more things change for Windows, the more things stay the same, use the new stuff and you will get fucked.
Chromebook, ignoring datamining, is shaping up to be almost everything a modern laptop/desktop should be for normies. A hardware certification model which while open to input from third party manufacturers is tightly enough controlled it gives a limited amount of platforms allowing good QA and pain free updates. A core OS which is cloud oriented to make account transfer across devices pain free. A core OS with one of the best app sandboxes in the industry, far ahead of what appcontainer can ever be due to better design not being held back by 3 decades of cruft. In the future, a VM maintained security boundary to run the most important crufty applications ... games
That's how you make something which just werks. Please for gods sake learn to follow their example properly Microsoft, Windows SE ain't it, I don't really want a future condemned to chose between Google or Apple.
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