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.
@OfCourseNot@neme@apfelwoiSchoppen@Blue_Morpho@NeoNachtwaechter@MinFapper
My dislike for MS products goes back to 1979 and the BASIC interpreter on the Commodore Pet.
At the time I thought that’s just how computers are but within just a few years I realised that non Microsoft BASIC always seemed to be better…
Can confirm. I’ve crashed most Microsoft products from msdos 5.
@OfCourseNot @neme @apfelwoiSchoppen @Blue_Morpho @NeoNachtwaechter @MinFapper
My dislike for MS products goes back to 1979 and the BASIC interpreter on the Commodore Pet.
At the time I thought that’s just how computers are but within just a few years I realised that non Microsoft BASIC always seemed to be better…