Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel (www.theverge.com)

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 43 points 2 weeks ago

Yay! Do anticheat next!

[-] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago

It's good to see that M$FT is tackling the important problems:

The sight of a Blue Screen of Death will also be a thing of the past, too. Microsoft is now officially redesigning its BSOD so that it’s black and not blue.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago

Hello darkness my old friend

[-] taco@piefed.social 11 points 2 weeks ago

At least they preserved the BSOD acronym.

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

It wasn't even blue on Windows 10, it was the accent color.

[-] BlueBockser@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

They're the same picture.jpg

[-] digdilem@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

If it prevents us having another crappy week thanks to the like of Crowdstrike, good.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah personally I see it as Microsoft was forced to allow kernel access, and crowd strike proved why the courts shouldn't be allowed to make a technical decision like that

[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

First question which popped into my mind was, "Will they force Defender out as well?"
Or, is Microsoft about to abuse it's position to stifle competition? Again.

[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Tbh out of the big corpos MS has been one of the least anti-competitive in the past 10-15 years. They like to push their own services with ads within their own services yes but that's not really anti competitive in the truest sense, every company on earth does that.

The biggest one I can think of recently is them having lower rates for Windows Server on Azure vs other clouds. Compare that with companies like Apple, Google who actively attempt to put down other services.

IMO Nadella has been pretty decent in handling that part of MS. Though I don't really have an answer to your Defender question lol.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

I imagine that a crowd of people are asking Microsoft what made this idea strike their fancy...

[-] JiveTurkey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I couldn't care less about this. Get anti cheat ba out of the kernel.

[-] notthebees@reddthat.com 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's a start. After cloudflare, they have all the ammunition needed to start removing shit like.this. Anticheat would be an amazing next move.

Edit: crowdstrike. Oop

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago

You mean Crowdstrike? Cloudflare is a different problem.

[-] notthebees@reddthat.com 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oops. Forgot to proofread. I meant crowdstrike

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