• Win10 Creators Update will let you block apps from outside the Store

    Posted on February 27, 2017 at 07:40 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    This one’s starting to echo around the blogosphere.

    Windows 10 Creators Update brings several old settings – they used to be in the System applet – up to a new high-level applet called Apps.

    In the new Apps > Apps & features setting, there’s a new option called Choose where apps can be installed from. (Presumably, the wording will change before the final version ships, unless we get a new dangling participle option with.) You’re given three choices:

    • Allow apps from anywhere (that’s the default)
    • Prefer apps from the Store, but allow apps from anywhere
    • Allow apps from the Store only

    The buzz is about the last option, which should lock down machines so they can only install apps from the Store.

    Paul Thurrott has the most thorough explanation I’ve seen on thurrott.com, but the options function as you would expect.

    Of course, the worry is that Microsoft is creating a version of Windows that’ll be limited to Windows Store apps, possibly in conjunction with a “free” version of Windows that doesn’t work much better than Windows RT. It’s the “Windows 10 Cloud” direction.

    It might happen at some point, but I don’t think it’s cause for concern at this point. By the time Windows Cloud rolls around, we’ll have plenty of competing options.

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