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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by hybrids on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:45PM (#21458157)
>The ability for an application (eg, Office) to install side-by-side with other versions of itself is entirely different than its Backwards Compatibility (eg: ability for current versions to open and/or save Office 2007 format). In fact, because of the latter, provided they did a good job at it, the former is arguably irrelevant.

I am still somewhat surprised that Windows doesn't have a Docker-esque sandboxing system to solve this problem (I mean, it has Docker, but it's based on a full VM). I suppose in the third-party realm at the very least you have Sandboxie, but meh...

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by fishtacos on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:15PM (#21458424)
"I am still somewhat surprised that Windows doesn't have a Docker-esque sandboxing system to solve this problem (I mean, it has Docker, but it's based on a full VM). I suppose in the third-party realm at the very least you have Sandboxie, but meh..."

Starting with Office 2016 (maybe 2013) App-V from MS does precisely what you describe and it doesn't require any sort of classic virtualization component to be accessibly by the OS or hardware.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_App-V

The tech is there. Usage is a different story.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by hybrids on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:45PM (#21459567)
Interesting! Didn't know about this.
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