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https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/07/22/microsoft-says-eu-to-blame-for-the-worlds-worst-it-outage
they're 100% correct btw
A 2009 agreement insisted on by the European Commission meant that Microsoft could not make security changes that would have blocked the update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike
!neolibs government overregulation causing issues 
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"The EU forced an American company to send out a faulty update that bsods the system at boot"
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yes
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I think it's even more abstract, they forced Microsoft to allow kernel extensions willy nilly and therefore Microsoft couldn't lock down their OS and gatekeep the access extensions have or possibly even updates, kinda like Apple does with the App Store
Which is still a huge question mark
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It's technically true
But if you look at Windows 11, you can see that the same sort of thing could've just as easily happened with Microsoft's in-house code
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The stupidity of eurotards is only matched by their love for overbearing regulation (this is why the only Euro ""tech"" company to ever make it big was a complete fraud and collapsed in a day after its founder fled to Russia). Combining the two together into a stupid and overbearing regulation is to a euro what deep-frying a mars bar is to an American.
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You're complaining about entities being over bearing when they prevent Microsoft from turning your windows pc into an iPad to protect you from yourself
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I mean, he (and probably you and most of the users here) needs protecting from himself.
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It's microshaft trying to save face. They'd direct blame to literally anybody but themselves, but we know that the real cause of this was Rakesh on 3rd floor tripping over server cables
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