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Paul Thurrott, a very long-time Microsoft focused journalist, also called BS on this. Apparently the EU never asked for anything, Microsoft made all of those de
by tapoxi 2y ago
Paul Thurrott, a very long-time Microsoft focused journalist, also called BS on this. Apparently the EU never asked for anything, Microsoft made all of those decisions themselves and the EU basically just acknowledged them.
- intern4tional 2y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20061023112233/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39163277,00.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20061023112233/http://software.s... "Microsoft made both changes in response to antitrust concerns from the European Commission. Led by Symantec, the world's largest antivirus software maker, security companies had publicly criticised Microsoft over both Vista features and also talked to European competition officials about their gripes." Perhaps reactive, but there were definitely conversations between EU and MS. As someone that watched the video (and directly worked on this stuff during my time at MS), I think Marcus has no idea on how the OS vendors relationships work with governments. He misses the fact that if Windows releases user-level APIs that provide similar functionality, it would break existing functionality and force a migration. For the example he uses patch guard, existing functionality did not break anywhere as significant as say would evicting drivers from the kernel.
- hulitu 2y ago> Microsoft made all of those decisions themselves and the EU basically just acknowledged them. That's why they pay 2 Bilion Euros per year as "lobby" money to EU.
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