Windows Insider Preview build 17686 includes a hint that Microsoft may soon allow users to “switch to S mode”. If true, the software giant may finally reverse on of the worst design decisions in Windows history.
You can see this hint by opening the Settings app and typing S mode. As you can see in the shot above, Settings provides a search hint for a Settings interface called Switch to S Mode.
I would definitely use this switch; I pretty much run only Store Applications on my Surface Pro 4 anyway, and an easy switch to allow classic Win32 applications if the need arises seems useful.
I would prefer a setting for globally disabling store apps. Every one I try is useless, nonfunctional, or infuriating. That includes the MS apps and the store-like apps like the settings app and edge. I want them all to go away so I never have to deal with them again.
Yeah. There is Windows 10 n LTSB and it work that way, but you can`t get that version easy.
Install Start10 (or some other start menu replacement) and just forget they exist. Its not hard.
No problem, Microsoft is in the process of moving Win32 to the store as well, so you will get your apps there.
MSIX with Windows Containers is merging both worlds together.
Sounds shit.
How about removing the store and making an OS where I can get my own apps where I like?
If that is important to you, I would suggest switching to Linux or some other Open Source OS. What you want and what the companies making most commercial operating systems want is two different things…
Should Offer boot to S image. At most of emergencies, no time to pamper.
Boot S and send those urgent files to another machine.
That image on Call-Home SelfManagement.
A good place also, to give maintainance to a damaged Pro Image, also.
So the writer aplauds having a switch to disable non-store applications?
Oh i get it, like if there is no parking spaces and you would like to momentarily handicap yourself so you can use the parking space for the disabled..
I remember a discussion (on this board I think) a few years back where I brought up the likelihood that Microsoft would eventually disable unsigned apps. Everyone said I was crazy… They would never do that they said. It would be suicide they said.
It went down a little different than I thought, but it has already started. They are just being gentle as they ease the knife in…
I appreciate it, I don’t want to have random app access my personal files.
Also Microsoft is playing catch up with Apple and Google on this one.
And I like having my apps do whatever I like and getting them from whereever I like.
A permission structure for doing bad things may be resonable but hobbling the computer so it no longer has what any sane person would call an operating system is not.
The OS is not an app store and should never be.
The OS is there to be my bitch not whoever created its.
The Store brings to Windows package management / autoupdating of 3rd party apps, that’s universally a good thing…
More like this is one of those Linux guys that loves repositories because he can never stop installing malware on Windows.
Im the exact opposite. I dont have a single app from the store. I tried VLC long ago and felt it wanting.
On the contrary, history shows allowing anyone to develop software for Windows is why it succeeded and we’re all using x86 right now (outside of arm stuff.) I would actually have to say the opposite and repositories the writer thinks of the same as app stores are actually the worst design decision in desktop Linux. Apps require a man in the middle to repackage everything, nothing can just work out of the box so there are .deb, .rpm, etc. There are some newer “solutions,” but as always they will not see widespread adoption as the Linux community will bicker over small technical details endlessly instead of wasting a bit of cheap disk space to make things go smoothly for the user.
Windows S is a great idea for a recovery partition to diagnose and troubleshoot your operating system.
So far windows 10 was far better than 8/8.1, but it looks like they are taking a step back into that terrible territory again.
The goal is to get 3rd party software sources all going through the store to get the same financial cut as the app and play stores. Windows 8 was simply a direct attempt to force people to use the metro apps and buy software through the store.
I dare you to find a single app where the a Windows App Store version is not worse than the standalone version.