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intern4tional | 1 year ago
"Microsoft made both changes in response to antitrust concerns from the European Commission. Led by Symantec, the world's largest antivirus software maker, security companies had publicly criticised Microsoft over both Vista features and also talked to European competition officials about their gripes."
Perhaps reactive, but there were definitely conversations between EU and MS.
As someone that watched the video (and directly worked on this stuff during my time at MS), I think Marcus has no idea on how the OS vendors relationships work with governments. He misses the fact that if Windows releases user-level APIs that provide similar functionality, it would break existing functionality and force a migration.
For the example he uses patch guard, existing functionality did not break anywhere as significant as say would evicting drivers from the kernel.
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