If a EU regulation was at fault, only systems in the EU should’ve been affected. There would be no reason to adhere to complicated EU rules everywhere else globally.
This doesn’t add up. They need to find a more believable fall guy.
Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage | Euronews
Submitted 3 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/07/22/microsoft-says-eu-to-blame-for-the-worlds-worst-it-outage
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norimee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 3 months ago
There would be no reason to adhere to complicated EU rules everywhere else globally.
But there are a ton of websites that do adhere to complicated GDPR rules even though they serve 99.99% US based clients.
I think this has nothing to do with EU and it’s just some far fetched bullshit excuse from Microsoft.
neidu2@feddit.nl 3 months ago
I blame their parents!
And video games!
VonReposti@feddit.dk 3 months ago
Why is Microsoft defending Crowdstrike?
thurstylark@lemm.ee 3 months ago
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.
Strykker@programming.dev 3 months ago
They aren’t, it’s more “it’s the EUs fault for forcing us to allow businesses like cloud strike to write kernel level antivirus, because we already have our own.”
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Exactly, wtf.
silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Typical MS gaslighting and manipulation to subvert meaningful regulation.
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Then,Microsoft,just leave EU. Simple.
db2@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Msexit
Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 3 months ago
blEU screen of death
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 months ago
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.
Toes@ani.social 3 months ago
tl;dr The crash came from kernel level influence that Microsoft was blocked from denying by regulation.
This is a good thing for consumers as it continues to allow them more control over the computer.
aard@kyu.de 3 months ago
This doesn’t have anything to do with user control - modern windows versions need drivers to be WHQL signed to get that kind of access. Alternatively you’ll need to enable developer mode on your system, and install your own developer certificate into its keyring for running own code, which has its own drawbacks.
Crowdstrike is implemented as a device driver - but as there is no device Microsoft could’ve argued that this is abusing the APIs, and refused the WHQL certification. Microsofts own security solution (Defender) also is implemented as a device driver, though, and that’s what the EU ruling is about: Microsoft needs to provide the same access they’re using in their own products to competitors. Which is a good thing - but if Microsoft didn’t have Defender, or they’d have done it without that type of access it’d have been fully legal for them to deny the certification for Crowdstrike.
Both MacOS and Linux have the ability to run the type of thing that requires those privileges on Windows in an unprivileged process - and on newer Linux versions Crowdstrike is using that (older versions got broken by them the same way they now broke Windows). So Microsoft now trying to blame the EU can be seen as an attempt to keep people from questioning why Microsoft didn’t implement a low privilege API as well, which would’ve prevented this whole mess.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 months ago
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
Womble@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Its all the EU’s fault for having the temerity to think users should be able to control their own hardware instead of us!
0x0@programming.dev 3 months ago
I’m still to see the doc where MS is forced to give ring-0, certified, boot-start to everyone.
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
JUST LET US BE A MONOPOLY!!!