What antivirus tool can be better than a disposable operating system designed exclusively for a certain application and delete it after you have finished with it! Such software solution will offer developing the Windows operating system the software giant users. Thus, the operating system Windows 10 from Microsoft will be able to run unknown apps in a special “sandbox” that will be a particular obstacle to the impact of software on the OS as a whole.
Microsoft is trying to reduce the risk of running unknown “.exe”file on the user’s computer. Some experienced users for unknown applications use a virtual machine. But Microsoft has developed a simple way to launch apps in Windows 10 in a sandbox environment. Windows Sandbox, says Tom Warren (Tom Warren) in the published theverge.com note — a new feature of Windows 10, which will appear next year. It will allow you to run a certain application in a temporary work environment by isolating the tool, created especially for her, “the sandbox”.
Windows Sandbox is a new feature in Windows 10 to run unknown applications
Security reporting software solutions is ensured by the fact that the working environment is disposable. After launching the app, the sandbox is deleted. Eliminates the need to configure a virtual machine, but you will need to enable in BIOS the virtualization support. Microsoft will make a new feature of Windows Sandbox part of the Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Enterprise. Because considering designed primarily for business users.
This clever feature works in the following way — every time when you turn on Windows Sandbox, created a new light installation of Windows (only 100 MB), designed specifically to run a particular application. To create a single nucleus, isolated from installed PC operating system that Microsoft uses its own hypervisor (the control program operating systems).
Testers of Windows 10 will be able to try a new feature, when Microsoft will release build 18305 or later. In his blog, the software giant has addressed the technical details of the Windows Sandbox.
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