Windows 8 Integration: Difference between revisions

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If however this type of access is not made available, vendors feel changes should be made to the current restrictions which will facilitate the ability of 3rd parties to compete with Microsoft's products in this new environment. The following section describes areas or changes various 3rd party browser vendors need in order to provide a compelling browser experience within the Metro interface.
If however this type of access is not made available, vendors feel changes should be made to the current restrictions which will facilitate the ability of 3rd parties to compete with Microsoft's products in this new environment. The following section describes areas or changes various 3rd party browser vendors need in order to provide a compelling browser experience within the Metro interface.


=== Major ===
=== Memory allocation and sharing ===
 
==== Memory allocation and sharing ====


(VirtualAlloc / HeapAlloc and friends)
(VirtualAlloc / HeapAlloc and friends)
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<b>Shared memory</b> - While it appears DuplicateHandle is available and passes stand-along validation, and memory can be allocated with CreateFileMapping, without process creation & pipes this is of little use.
<b>Shared memory</b> - While it appears DuplicateHandle is available and passes stand-along validation, and memory can be allocated with CreateFileMapping, without process creation & pipes this is of little use.


==== Pipes ====
=== Pipes ===


(CreateNamedPipe, ConnectNamedPipe, DisconnectNamedPipe)
(CreateNamedPipe, ConnectNamedPipe, DisconnectNamedPipe)
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<b>IPC</b> - None of the current pipe apis passes validation. According to ms employee comments no IPC type mechanisms will be allowed in the Windows Store [3].
<b>IPC</b> - None of the current pipe apis passes validation. According to ms employee comments no IPC type mechanisms will be allowed in the Windows Store [3].


==== Processes ====
=== Processes ===


(CreateProcess)
(CreateProcess)
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