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Is it reliable? A VM is fully isolated, apart from maybe network and IO.

It's Hyper-V under the hood.

Curious to know which tradeoffs Microsoft chose to have sandbox boot this quickly

It's actually restoring state from a snapshot so it doesn't need to fully boot. There's some great technical details at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-platform-b...