Yay! Do anticheat next!
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do anticheat count as antivirus? if so thats really good news.
i mean anticheat is doing very similar things to antivirus software.
do anticheat count as antivirus?
No. But, from the article:
Microsoft has been speaking with game developers about how to reduce the amount of kernel usage
The CrowdStrike fiasco was finally enough for Microsoft to look at forcing drivers out of the kernel. This is absolutely a good thing and will hopefully lead to a more stable Windows.
I'm a Linux user, and while that would also be win for me, I'd be really happy for Windows users to finally stop having what amounts to a rootkit and spyware combined, to have to play games.
Probably doesn't count, but I bet that Anti-cheat will be next, if it works.
i hope it is!
First question which popped into my mind was, "Will they force Defender out as well?"
Or, is Microsoft about to abuse it's position to stifle competition? Again.
Tbh out of the big corpos MS has been one of the least anti-competitive in the past 10-15 years. They like to push their own services with ads within their own services yes but that's not really anti competitive in the truest sense, every company on earth does that.
The biggest one I can think of recently is them having lower rates for Windows Server on Azure vs other clouds. Compare that with companies like Apple, Google who actively attempt to put down other services.
IMO Nadella has been pretty decent in handling that part of MS. Though I don't really have an answer to your Defender question lol.
It's good to see that M$FT is tackling the important problems:
The sight of a Blue Screen of Death will also be a thing of the past, too. Microsoft is now officially redesigning its BSOD so that it’s black and not blue.
Hello darkness my old friend
At least they preserved the BSOD acronym.
It wasn't even blue on Windows 10, it was the accent color.
They're the same picture.jpg
If it prevents us having another crappy week thanks to the like of Crowdstrike, good.
Yeah personally I see it as Microsoft was forced to allow kernel access, and crowd strike proved why the courts shouldn't be allowed to make a technical decision like that
I imagine that a crowd of people are asking Microsoft what made this idea strike their fancy...
I couldn't care less about this. Get anti cheat ba out of the kernel.
It's a start. After cloudflare, they have all the ammunition needed to start removing shit like.this. Anticheat would be an amazing next move.
Edit: crowdstrike. Oop
You mean Crowdstrike? Cloudflare is a different problem.
Oops. Forgot to proofread. I meant crowdstrike