Windows Sandbox is the safe environment for Windows testing coming in the next update in spring
Surely on some occasion you have had to install an application in Windows or any other operating system. A utility that could cause operating and performance problems that didn't make it advisable to install it on the system we use every day Then the most popular option appeared: perform an installation through a virtual machine.
To avoid these complications, the next big Windows update that should arrive in the spring of 2019 (for now we know it as branch 19H1) could release a new feature.This is the Windows Sandbox, a way to test applications without posing a risk to our team.
They explain it very well at Microsoft, where they announce that Windows Sandbox is an isolated and temporary desktop environment in which unreliable software can be run without having to worry about operating problems on our PC . Windows Sandbox is a closed environment, only for testing, which we run from time to time and whose effects disappear once we close it.
In order to access Windows Sandbox, however, we must fulfill a series of requirements, both _software_ and _hardware_:
- Be using a version of Windows 10 Pro or Windows 10 Enterprise
- Use an AMD64 architecture
- Have virtualization capabilities enabled in BIOS (UEFI)
- A minimum of 4GB RAM (8GB recommended)
- A minimum of 1 GB free disk space (here an SSD is recommended)
- Have at least 2 CPU cores (4 cores with hyperthreading recommended)
Windows Sandbox is characterized by offering the appearance of a clean Windows, as if it had just been installed. As we have already mentioned, when Windows Sandbox is closed, everything that we have installed disappears, since it makes use of hardware-based virtualization for kernel isolation. This system allows you to isolate the Windows Sandbox from the host.
Windows Sandbox will arrive first, as usual, to those who are integrated into the Insider Program, so there is no It should take a long time for a Build to release it.
