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Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows (www.neowin.net)
submitted 4 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (39 children)

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.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (30 children)

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.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

They are legally required to let Crowdstrike crash your computer.

I call Bullshit.

If it had been Windows NT 3.5, there would have been no bluescreens around the world. It would have stopped the buggy software, given a message accordingly, and continued it's job. That Windows was not stupid enough to crash itself just because of a null pointer in another software.

Now you tell me that Windows NT 3.5 is illegal?

[–] MinFapper@startrek.website 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You could absolutely install software on Windows 3.5 that would crash the system.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can confirm. I've crashed most Microsoft products from msdos 5.

[–] vorsprung@hachyderm.io 0 points 4 months ago

@OfCourseNot @neme @apfelwoiSchoppen @Blue_Morpho @NeoNachtwaechter @MinFapper
My dislike for MS products goes back to 1979 and the BASIC interpreter on the Commodore Pet.
At the time I thought that's just how computers are but within just a few years I realised that non Microsoft BASIC always seemed to be better...

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