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Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage (www.euronews.com)
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Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The unaccountable 3rd Party market that is built around MS is what caused the issue.

No OS is 100% secure, but as soon as you allow 3rd Party vendors to fuck around at the kernel level, they get much less secure.

Microsoft is to blame for allowing these fucktards kernel-level access. There were other ways they could have enabled third-party intrusion prevention software without giving away keys to the city.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

again, there's no need to defend microsoft: microsoft could do the right thing and not try to use the situation in an attempt to undermine eu antitrust policies using a bullshit take.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

Microsoft is to blame for allowing these fucktards kernel-level access.

This is a backwards take.

The only way to have actual security is for the entire kernel to be completely open source. Microsoft is too blame for not giving everyone kernel-level access.