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Microsoft can kick security vendors out the kernel, but they can't sell a product that uses APIs not accessible to other vendors.


Sure, but my question still stands - would this have happened if the EU had not made that ruling?


Yes. There were kernel mode drivers before that ruling, it is essentially entirely irrelevant to this outage.


Those kernel mode drivers operated in a way that would not bring down the entire system if they crashed


Probably




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