From what I have heard about windows 7 (Nothing I have bother to research or confirm, so take with a large grain of salt) that style of vm sandbox is exactly
what they are doing, called Med-V.
Rather than deal with trying to import and support legacy code natively in 7, they are including a vm that run all that in-house legacy company software that
Microsoft needs to support if it wants upgrades to sell.
The added benefit of MS doing this built in is that they can roll this VM so that it appears to be a native app.
It's one step from there to hook all the risky apps (anything that talks to the internet) into a vm to minimize the attack surface.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
what they are doing, called Med-V.
Rather than deal with trying to import and support legacy code natively in 7, they are including a vm that run all that in-house legacy company software that
Microsoft needs to support if it wants upgrades to sell.
The added benefit of MS doing this built in is that they can roll this VM so that it appears to be a native app.
It's one step from there to hook all the risky apps (anything that talks to the internet) into a vm to minimize the attack surface.
-Terry
-----
"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy