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.
  • skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Blaming the EU is stupid MacOS is locked down, for the EU it’s more about apps less about the kernel space.

    • ammonium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      172·
      4 months ago

      Security software are also “apps”. Since Microsoft is also in the security software business locking down access for their competitors could definitely be seen as anti-competitive practices.

      Apple doesn’t have a monopoly with MacOS so other rules apply.

      • skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        My issue with that is Android is also pretty locked down and most certainly does have a monopoly, in general I think it’s just MS being stupid.