[Pc_Support] Windows and application sandboxes?

[Justin M. Keyes]

On 1/1/06, Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> applications, so for example in Windows Vista, legacy apps -- including
> Microsofts own apps that don't work properly unless run as Adminstrator --
> can be 'safely' run in a sandbox?  I mean, it works for wine and winelib on
> Linux on x86, why not for WoW?

I don't think there is a reason, except performance and (before Vista)
reluctance to rewrite the entire OS (I don't know if Vista is really a
complete rewrite, as I've only seen a single article that says so, and
I am not sure if it was credible). After all, Mac OS X ran OS 9
programs in a virtual machine (but it was slow).