Yeah, it’s all the EU’s fault and not at all companies pushing updates whenever. “Here’s a new update, we’ll install and restart your PC. Fuck you”
I know, it was a security update, patching a possible attack vector. I will take a very wild guess here and say that this has caused much more damage than what the update would ever protect from
Then,Microsoft,just leave EU. Simple.
They should, but then they’d be replaced by other US multinationals. So they won’t.
The EU (and not just the EU by the way) loves US tech. It can’t get enough. They both play a cat and mouse game with each other for the public but the EU aren’t going to force MS out and MS aren’t going to leave.
Put it another way, of the EU wanted to be principled and demand fairness for EU citizens they’d take away MS (and other US multinational’s) tax breaks via Dublin. But they’re not going to do that.
Put it another way, of the EU wanted to be principled and demand fairness for EU citizens they’d take away MS (and other US multinational’s) tax breaks via Dublin. But they’re not going to do that.
The EU is literally doing that.
Literally dragging their heels over this. The biggest opposition was from EU bloc nations.
Now Ireland have eventually signed up to this but it’s a minimum threshold. i.e. they’re still highly comfortable about letting US multinational’s get away with complex tax arrangements in the EU to lower the amount they pay.
Typical MS gaslighting and manipulation to subvert meaningful regulation.
Why is Microsoft defending Crowdstrike?
My guess: Because they reviewed and signed the kernel space code which calls code that is unreviewed and unsigned (or, at the very least, pulls directly from files that are unreviewed and unsigned without proper validation or error checking), calling out CrowdStrike’s failure puts them on the hook too.
Microsoft has Windows Defender, its in-house alternative to CrowdStrike, but because of the 2009 agreement made to avoid a European competition investigation, had allowed multiple security providers to install software at the kernel level.
Its all the EU’s fault for having the temerity to think users should be able to control their own hardware instead of us!
