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Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows
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.
An article published by The Wall Street Journal today ended with an interesting point raised by a Microsoft spokesman regarding the security of the Windows operating system. The spokesman, while not quoted verbatim, is said to have told the WSJ that a 2009 deal with the European Commission is the reason why Microsoft can't lock down its operating system more to boost security. The European Union has been ramping up measures to tackle so-called anti-competitive behavior by big tech in recent years so it's pretty unlikely to go down a path where it allows Microsoft to lock down Windows further, despite the benefits that would offer.
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