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They Now Have Google Chrome Running On Windows 10 Cloud
« on: February 08, 2017, 09:58:21 PM »
They, as in one overly enthusiastic user. We all know that the upcoming Windows 10 Cloud version of the operating system is going to have functionality quite similar to Windows RT.

As in, it can only run apps that are built for the Windows Store.

And while Microsoft is yet to officially announced this variant of Windows, a build rather unofficially leaked last week. That is what the community has been testing lately in order to determine what kinds of bells and whistles Redmond has added under the hood.

Twitter user Longhorn claims to have managed to get the Google Chrome web browser working on this operation system.

This was accomplished by turning it into a Store app via the Desktop App Converter:




Longhorn has actually detailed the process about how Win32 apps are blocked and how he bypassed it.

And this is interesting because the leaked screenshots from build 15019 of Windows 10 Cloud showed converted Win32 apps working, but they did not in the leaked build 15025.

He reveals that Windows 10 Cloud users a strongly enforced UMCI to make sure that unsigned applications do not work, though some of these restrictions can be worked around by using the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Which inexplicably still works, for now.

Still, a lot of the details remain cloud (pun always intended) in mystery for now for this new variant of Windows 10 that Microsoft is apparently preparing to license for free to OEMs. Hopefully, we get some official details soon enough.

source:windows10update