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Would this still have happened if the EU had not ruled against Microsoft?
by strombofulous 2y ago
Would this still have happened if the EU had not ruled against Microsoft?
- PlutoIsAPlanet 2y agoMicrosoft can kick security vendors out the kernel, but they can't sell a product that uses APIs not accessible to other vendors.
- strombofulous 2y agoSure, but my question still stands - would this have happened if the EU had not made that ruling?
- mort96 2y agoProbably
- Tuna-Fish 2y agoYes. There were kernel mode drivers before that ruling, it is essentially entirely irrelevant to this outage.
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- strombofulous 2y agoThose kernel mode drivers operated in a way that would not bring down the entire system if they crashed
- holsta 2y agoIt's not about kernel access, it's about equal access to avoid yet another monopoly. Microsoft could have come up with a kernel API that their own malware (and everyone elses) product could make use of. They did not.
- extraduder_ire 2y agoProbably not, but in more of a butterfly-effect or this product not existing way.