Wisdom said:Exactly, users don't see them, and these alerts will be block, and therefore I say it's very very similar to auto HIPS.
No, it reduces the number of alerts by sandboxing unknown applications instead of giving the user an alert asking them what they want to do about it.
It isn't merely not showing the alerts and blocking the action. (Although as Umbrapolaris pointed out, you can set the sandbox to block all unrecognized applications)
Instead of the alert, the application is run in the sandbox and is given the access rights level that the user has selected.
So instead of an 'auto HIPS', (again, whatever that may be...) it's more of an, 'auto user-selectable access restrictor'.