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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows

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Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

The CrowdStrike Windows outage that hit the world this week stems back to an EU-Microsoft deal from 2009 that meant Microsoft had to give antivirus vendors the same Windows API access it had.

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Apparently it’s because CrowdStrike installed their device driver as one that must start when Windows starts.

Explained here: https://youtu.be/wAzEJxOo1ts?feature=shared&t=675

I’ve linked to the specific time where he explains that issue, but tbh the whole video is worth watching.

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