Microsoft announces Windows Sandbox, a desktop environment for running applications in isolation (Mark Wycislik-Wilson/Betanews)

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Microsoft announces Windows Sandbox, a desktop environment for running applications in isolation – Microsoft has announced an upcoming security feature which it hopes will take the fear and risk out of running unknown software. Windows Sandbox is an isolated desktop environment which functions much like a virtual machine; any software installed to it is completely sandboxed from the host operating system. Aimed at …