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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by TheRealPomax on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:31AM (#16258425)
I'm always fascinated by statements like these. Do you honestly thing that when it comes out, people won't be updating the applications that currently exist to make Windows 10 look and feel like a "classic" windows?

I run windows 10 with Classic Shell and 7 Taskbar Tweaker. The only time you know it's windows 10 is if you need to be in "PC Settings". For all other purposes it looks and feels identical to Windows 7.

I'm pretty sure when that new version rolls around, it'll take a well counted several days for cosmetic applications to show up to make the OS look less offensive to you, and as long as they get the virtualization right, on your 2019 computer you won't even notice that win32 apps (as in, non-uwp apps, not "32 bit applications") are running virtualized.

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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by throwaway2048 on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:34AM (#16258452)
UWP apps are signed, and do not allow code injection, you effectively cannot modify their apperance, or anything else about them.
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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by WorldMaker on Monday January 29, 2018 @01:36PM (#16259550)
Some UWP apps offer mod extensibility (Edge extensions are the most prominent, but a couple UWP games have community mods and more are supposed to happen down the road), and Microsoft has shown interest in supporting general UWP application modding/patching, but haven't yet solved how they want to support that (and still try for security/reliability concerns; not just let it be a new malware vector).
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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by throwaway2048 on Monday January 29, 2018 @02:04PM (#16259806)
If you think its about malware vectors and not about them having greater control and say over apps and app distribution on windows, I have a bridge to sell you.
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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by WorldMaker on Monday January 29, 2018 @02:19PM (#16259926)
You seem to think it's an either/or situation. It's definitely both. It's most correctly that the two concerns are directly related: app distribution is the primary source of malware. The "classic" app distribution platforms for Windows, EXE installers and MSI are terrible for preventing malware. After decades of people complaining that Windows is the most malware-ridden platform, can you blame Microsoft for wanting to make app distribution better?
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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by throwaway2048 on Monday January 29, 2018 @02:27PM (#16259970)
I can blame them for wanting to take control of the market, yes.
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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by WorldMaker on Monday January 29, 2018 @05:05PM (#16261052)
Sure, you can, just don't mind me rolling my eyes at you. For more than a year now it's been as easy, if not easier, to sideload an APPX on Windows 10 as it is to sideload an APK on Android. (The same ease from a user perspective as using an EXE installer or an MSI file: double click, navigate the security prompts.)
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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by Avery3R on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:44AM (#16258546)
You could always patch the os to disable signature enforcement. That might open you up to malware though.
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