alt Hacker NewsIt's so frustrating seeing all this sandbox tooling pop up for linux but windows is soooooo far behind. I mean Windows Sandbox ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati... ) doesn't even have customizable networking white lists. You can turn networking on or off but that's about as fine grained as it gets. So all of us still having to write desktop windows stuff are left without a good method of easily putting our agents in a blast proof box.
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I don't mean to turn this into a religious war, but honestly, I sometimes wonder what would be the net benefit for humanity if Windows slowly disappeared. And I'm saying this as someone who appreciates the good stuff done by Microsoft in the past (windows 9* UI, decades-long support for Win32 APIs etc.).
Web browsers don't even work properly in Windows Sandbox. There is a bug that hasn't been patched in over a year whereby web browsers can't use the GPU to render a page so all it displays is a white page. Users have to create a configuration file that turns off vGPU and launch Windows Sandbox from that.
I guess get busy contacting Microsoft or get busy using Open Source software instead.