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.
  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Oh FFS. I love this era where companies will not accept the blame due to “liability”, even when they are explicitly to blame.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

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

      They are legally required to give Crowdstrike or anyone complete low level access to the OS. They are legally required to let Crowdstrike crash your computer. Because anything else means Microsoft is in control and not the software you installed.

      It’s no different than Linux in that way. If you install a buggy device driver on Linux, that’s your/the driver’s fault, not Linux.

    • 800XL@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I don’t know enough about Windows 10/11, but aren’t they supposed to boot into a menu thet allows you to pick the last known good configuration before it evens boots to the gui?

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It’s been a while since I had such a massive problem under Windows but the last time you could try to restore one of the last backups and usually that failed because Windows restore points are/were crap.