Marcus Hutchins-Microsoft claim that CrowdStrike was enabled by EU rule is false [video]
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This post simply uses a more appropriate header based on the actually video content and it has to be viewed to understand this point.
Marcus maintains that Microsoft's desire to give itself an advantage and EUs insistence that all other companies should have the same privileges led it to maintain that flaw.
Again the video must be watched to understand this.
"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.
That's why they pay 2 Bilion Euros per year as "lobby" money to EU.