[Bognar]

If some third party software you chose to install on your system added a kernel module and started causing kernel panics, would you blame the kernel maintainers?

I'm sure if MS decides to remove the ability for third parties to write code that runs in kernel mode in the name of security/reliability/whatever, this site would immediately turn on a dime and say that Microsoft is evil for removing user control over their machines.

[bongodongobob]

"Well since it's not open source and they can't audit the code line by line (like I always do), they shouldn't use it so it still the user's fault." Probably. Tech nerds tend to be hilariously out of touch with big picture stuff beyond their basement lab.

[slaymaker1907]

I’m not even sure Microsoft could actually restrict 3rd party code running in kernel mode like that from a legal perspective. There are a certain requirements about documenting interfaces in Windows from the 90s antitrust stuff.