Microsoft didn't blame the European Commission for the outage (thats a ridiculous headline), they said they can't close off the Kernel due to agreements made with the European Commission. The original soruce macrumors is quoting is thie WSJ article, see last paragraph: https://archive.is/FLNKH
A Microsoft spokesman said it cannot legally wall off its operating system in the same way Apple does because of an understanding it reached with the European Commission following a complaint. In 2009, Microsoft agreed it would give makers of security software the same level of access to Windows that Microsoft gets.
A Microsoft spokesman said it cannot legally wall off its operating system in the same way Apple does because of an understanding it reached with the European Commission following a complaint. In 2009, Microsoft agreed it would give makers of security software the same level of access to Windows that Microsoft gets.