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I'm assuming that "this years massive Windows outage" refers to the Crowdstrike thing, which wouldn't have happened if Microsoft had been able to lock down the

I'm assuming that "this years massive Windows outage" refers to the Crowdstrike thing, which wouldn't have happened if Microsoft had been able to lock down the kernel, which antitrust regulators prohibited. (The essay extensively deals with antitrust, I'm sure you have thoughts on this.)

trelane 2y ago
Only if you believe that executing in the kernel is necessary and that there could not be another way to do this, with public interfaces.
Ragnarork 2y ago
At this point I wonder if half the commenters have read the article.