Microsoft says EU to blame for the worst IT outage

Now Microsoft just sounds like pre-Brexit Britain. Why reflect on your own shortcomings when you can blame the EU instead :)<p>I suggest Microsoft follows Britain&#x27;s example and leaves. The main difference is that we Europeans actually miss the Brits, whereas nobody would miss Microsoft and its shoddy products and business practices.<p>On a more serious note, I fully understand that the Digital Markets Act is causing Microsoft headaches. But I think this headache is well deserved. Big Tech has been building moats where they should have built bridges, and now our computing landscape resembles medieval Germany where everything was at the mercy of a few feudal lords. It is time to drive out those lords and reshape software in a way that empowers, not enslaves.

&gt; Microsoft says 2009 law made cloudstrife outage happen<p>Or, an alternative interpretation: Microsoft had 15 years to fix any issues.

Why would Microsoft even bother making this comment? Is the outage in some part their fault? I was under the impression it had everything to do with the botched croudstrike update, and nothing to do with Windows itself. This could have just as well happened with some widely deployed antivirus running in the Linux kernel.

MS is damned if they do damned if they don’t. You can already see it in the comments. “They had 15 years to fix this”, “this na an excuse”, “they are already on the attack” etc.<p>If MS had blocked these type of things people would be in here complaining about antitrust and MS is evil.

The EU prays for a MSexit from the EU. The efficiency gains by that would be enormous. If we could just get also a SAPexit, Europe would become unbeatable.

Would that be the same Microsoft that approved and digitally signed the buggy CrowdStrike Falcon Agent kernel mode driver for Windows?

I laughed

Looks like a third dup of the same plot:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41038520">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41038520</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41029590">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41029590</a>

A ridiculous excuse. They could have provided an non-EU Windows version if that&#x27;s the case or better yet, create a robust solution as a software vendor to the said security companies.

[dupe]<p>More discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41029590">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41029590</a>

I didn’t notice any actual quotations, and the article ends:<p><i>Euronews Next has contacted Microsoft for comment</i><p>High quality stuff.

What an incredibly embarrassing response. They didn&#x27;t even have to say <i>anything</i>.

What a disingenuous argument by Microsoft - I really hope nobody buys it. Lots of the most mission critical software runs on Linux. They don&#x27;t have these security issues because they were open from the start.

Never waste a crisis. MS is already on the attack, seeking to leverage this crisis for its own ends. Machiavelli would be proud.

LOL, sure

TLDR; Microsoft says EU to blame for letting competition to exist.