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by voltagex_ 3713 days ago
A UWP sandboxing solution was demoed at Build this year and will ship as part of the Anniversary Update (SDK?). Apparently even Age of Empires II worked under it.
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Centennial isn't really a sandbox in the sense I think the poster above you meant - while processes have their reads/writes to certain filesystem/registry locations virtualized by default, this isn't a security boundary as they ultimately run at medium trust and can do anything the user can do.

AppContainer is the security sandbox used by modern apps (aka Metro/UWP). It can be used independently of other aspects of the modern app model - e.g., Chrome uses it to sandbox content processes - although this isn't documented very well (which I guess was what GP was complaining about?) and it seems like trying to sandbox apps that weren't designed to be sandboxed, as GP was wanting, would have inherent compatibility problems?