> MS is saying they wanted to do the exact same thing, but EU has mandated the access in order to allow multiple products to become rootkits. No. The EU only m

> MS is saying they wanted to do the exact same thing, but EU has mandated the access in order to allow multiple products to become rootkits. No. The EU only mandated that Microsoft give other vendors the same access they themselves use to do the same thing. This was the wake-up call to Microsoft to stop doing it that way, and in stead build a more secure API for themselves as well as others to use. But they preferred to sleep through it, for another fifteen years. They didn't “want to do the exact same thing”; if they had wanted to, they could have done it.