In the case of Windows, a lot is about compatibility. You can design a different system, but then a lot of existing software that users care about won’t properl

In the case of Windows, a lot is about compatibility. You can design a different system, but then a lot of existing software that users care about won’t properly function on it anymore. However, if you read the article, the vulnerability is enabled by a race condition in a Windows security component, so really just a bug here, even if Microsoft is trying to deflect from that.