Windows 10 S Vs Windows 10: What's The Difference?

[mister]

Stuff stores. Half of what runs on my computers is self-written and ain't going near a crappy store.

pretty sure I'm using one of your store apps

 

[rwenzori]

pretty sure I'm using one of your store apps

Oh! A funny boy. All I need.

 

[Mystic Twilight]

So is the store the MS version of Apples walled garden app store? If your software doesn't play nice with MS T&C, does that mean you can't install it on any future Win 10 S pc?

An aside, it's a little bit of ironic timing that Intel happened to drop Itanium support when MS is looking to drop win32 software.

 

[AlphaJohn]

An aside, it's a little bit of ironic timing that Intel happened to drop Itanium support when MS is looking to drop win32 software.

Microsoft is far from drooping Win32 support. In fact they pushing for Win32 on ARM as I type they developing Windows 10 for ARM to be released end of this year that can run normal Win32 apps.

[video=youtube;ONI0zfEnBPU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONI0zfEnBPU[/video]

Scheduled for Q4 2017
Microsoft Build 2017 video

 

[Arthur]

Agreed.

They want to wrap Win32 in a steel box so it can't stomp all over the system. It's a mistake to see the steel box as a coffin. Win32 has years maybe even decades to go before we can finally say bye-bye.

For now, a good way forward for new versions is to wrap them in Centennial.

 

[Mystic Twilight]

Microsoft is far from drooping Win32 support. In fact they pushing for Win32 on ARM as I type they developing Windows 10 for ARM to be released end of this year that can run normal Win32 apps.

[video=youtube;ONI0zfEnBPU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONI0zfEnBPU[/video]

Scheduled for Q4 2017
Microsoft Build 2017 video

That isn't the feel with win10 S, I think that the use of an ARM wrapper for x86 is just a stop-gap measure as legacy support for popular old software with a hope that the old stuff gets phased out. Same thing that MS did with Vista/7 and free XP mode.

 

[Willie Trombone]

Its not really a VM, like in virtual box or VMware. Its basically Bash for Windows that you Now install from the Windows Store.

See Above link for what exactly it is.

A bit like Cygwin then?
How different is it from this?

 

[AlphaJohn]

A bit like Cygwin then?
How different is it from this?

Its nothing like Cygwin. Cygwin is *inux code compiled for Win32.
This is actual Linux code compiled for Linux thinking its running on Linux without any Linux kernel anywhere.

Erm this demo will explain it better:
[video=youtube;ghiU-iLk1wE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghiU-iLk1wE[/video]

 

[Arthur]

That isn't the feel with win10 S, I think that the use of an ARM wrapper for x86 is just a stop-gap measure as legacy support for popular old software with a hope that the old stuff gets phased out. Same thing that MS did with Vista/7 and free XP mode.

An ARM wrapper? Are you referring to WOA (Windows on ARM) due out at the end of the year? If so, that's a straight x86 software emulator with a bit of hardware assist from Qualcomm.

What they're aiming to do is allow you to run unmodified 32-bit x86 applications on the WOA machine. No wrapper.

 

[Willie Trombone]

Its nothing like Cygwin. Cygwin is *inux code compiled for Win32.
This is actual Linux code compiled for Linux thinking its running on Linux without any Linux kernel anywhere.

Erm this demo will explain it better:

What about my link? Any different from what came with anniversary update?

 

[AlphaJohn]

What about my link? Any different from what came with anniversary update?

The link is what it is about, your link was the beta stage of WLS, that you had to jump through hoops to get running so to speak. Its now out of beta and in the Windows Kernel. All it needs is for you to install the distro app's so to speak. This apps package will be delivered via Windows Store once completed.

 

[Willie Trombone]

The link is what it is about, your link was the beta stage of WLS, that you had to jump through hoops to get running so to speak. Its now out of beta and in the Windows Kernel. All it needs is for you to install the distro app's so to speak. This apps package will be delivered via Windows Store once completed.

Got it, ta!