EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft

The piece discusses Microsoft’s suggestion that an EU 2009 interoperability agreement led to third-party security tools, such as CrowdStrike, operating within the Windows kernel, exacerbating the impact of the recent CrowdStrike-induced Windows crashes. It argues that nothing in the undertaking prevented Microsoft from offering safer, out-of-kernel APIs, and notes that Microsoft has not responded to questions about whether this remains its position.