Towards the end of the article there's this little gem: > "A Microsoft spokesman said it cannot legally wall off its operating system in the same way Apple doe

Towards the end of the article there's this little gem: > "A Microsoft spokesman said it cannot legally wall off its operating system in the same way Apple does because of an understanding it reached with the European Commission following a complaint. In 2009, Microsoft agreed it would give makers of security software the same level of access to Windows that Microsoft gets." It's EU's fault that Windows is a turd and CrowdStrike didn't bother testing their release - got it!