Jul 22, 2024 14:05:00Microsoft blames CrowdStrike for outages on European Commission complaint, highlighting why Macs were unscathedIn connection withthe CrowdStrike incident, a global IT outage that occurred on July 19, 2024, it has been reported that Microsoft has suggested that 'complying with requests from the European Commission in 2009 led to failure to prevent the CrowdStrike crash from spreading to Windows. 'On July 19, 2024, a large-scale failure occurred on Windows terminals with CrowdStrike security products installed, causing repeated blue screen displays and reboots. As endpoint detection and response (EDR) software, kernel mode is essential in order to properly identify what is happening andhow to respond.' But Microsoft can't prevent other companies from accessing the operating system kernel because, under a 2009 contract with the European Commission, Microsoft must give security software developers the same level of access to Windows as Microsoft does. A Microsoft spokesperson told the WSJ, 'Because we reached an agreement following a complaint from the European Commission, we cannot legally block our operating system like Apple has.'

Source: Wall Street Journal July 22, 2024 05:41 UTC