Wall Street Journal: Microsoft says it cannot wall off its OS due to a 2009 deal with the EC to give security software makers the same level of access to Windows that Microsoft gets — Global outage on Windows machines caused by CrowdStrike highlights Microsoft’s security challenges
Crowdstrike runs on Linux too, fyi. It’s broken it before, just not on this scale.
Yes, I’m aware, I interviewed for a job as a Linux Engineer there 😉