lemmy.gregw.us
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Nemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

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

www.neowin.net

external-link
message-square
92
fedilink
255
external-link

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

www.neowin.net

Nemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago
message-square
92
fedilink
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.
  • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    10
    ·
    10 months ago

    We all hate Microsoft for turning Windows into an ad platform but they aren’t wrong.

    Sorry, how is that related to the stability of the kernel?

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      10 months ago

      I explained in my second sentence.

      “They are legally required to give Crowdstrike or anyone low level access to the OS.”

      If you install a buggy driver into Linux and it crashes, that’s not a problem with the Linux kernel.
      https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-kernel-panic

      • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        6
        ·
        10 months ago

        I fully agree with you on that front, but ads have nothing to do with kernel access, so how is that relevant to their legal requirements?

        • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          10
          ·
          10 months ago

          I was explaining why everyone hates on Microsoft but the Crowdstrike crash had nothing to do with the reasons people hate MS.

          • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            10 months ago

            Gotcha.

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @L4s@lemmy.world
  • @autotldr@lemmings.world
  • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
  • @wikibot@lemmy.world
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 4.15K users / day
  • 9.83K users / week
  • 18.2K users / month
  • 37.7K users / 6 months
  • 2 local subscribers
  • 69.8K subscribers
  • 15.2K Posts
  • 631K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu@lemmy.world
  • Technopagan@lemmy.world
  • L4sBot@lemmy.world
  • L3s@hackingne.ws
  • L4s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.10
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org