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amadeuspagel 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

I'm assuming that "this years massive Windows outage" refers to the Crowdstrike thing, which wouldn't have happened if Microsoft had been able to lock down the kernel, which antitrust regulators prohibited. (The essay extensively deals with antitrust, I'm sure you have thoughts on this.)

trelane 3 months ago | [–]

Only if you believe that executing in the kernel is necessary and that there could not be another way to do this, with public interfaces.

Ragnarork 3 months ago | [–]

At this point I wonder if half the commenters have read the article.

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