https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/22/windows_crowdstrike_kernel_eu/
The M$ propaganda claim is that they tried to replace security kernel drivers with an API which would have offered all the same functionality as kernel access with far more safety but the mean EU said they couldn't. What really happened is M$ created two apis one for their own security software and one for all third party software:
Microsoft shall ensure on an ongoing basis and in a Timely Manner that the APIs in the Windows Client PC Operating System and the Windows Server Operating System that are called on by Microsoft Security Software Products are documented and available for use by third-party security software products that run on the Windows Client PC Operating System and/or the Windows Server Operating System.
The settlement never said MS could never implement an API like this just that they needed the api to be open and documented for other anti viruses to use. Despite these apis being apperently so good M$ threw a tantrum as they couldn't have a special API locked all to themselves. They released this security api and if it was so good they could have easily moved their own security software to it and locked down the kernel. But it was dogshit so they had to let everyone back into the kernel despite the instability it caused.
!linuxchads !fosstards !nonchuds M$ has been spreading lies about the crowdstrike incident and EU settlement to turn people against anti trust by blaming their tantrum on the EU. In win10 they also finally made security apis with functions necessary to replace kernel level ones, so again they were never banned from doing this they just threw a tantrum and claimed they were even tho the settlement is public. Frick Dave's Garage
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