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   Ian Betteridge (ianb@mastodon.well.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 19:27:00 JST Ian Betteridge

   Expect this line to be swallowed up as “proof" by the usual suspects that closed platforms are good and government regulation is bad.

   https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/microsoft-tech-outage-role-crowdstrike-50917b90?st=pkas1bzrhcoj0os&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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     Ian Betteridge (ianb@mastodon.well.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 19:26:58 JST Ian Betteridge

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     The full details on Microsoft's interoperability deal appears to have vanished into their servers – maybe they got hit by CrowdStrike – but you can still get them from the Internet Archive, thankfully.

     Not that any of the people currently racing to Threads to denounce the EU as a security risk will bother.

     https://web.archive.org/web/20100116043503/https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/dec09/12-16statement.mspx

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     Ian Betteridge (ianb@mastodon.well.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 19:26:59 JST Ian Betteridge

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     The 2009 deal, by the way, was nothing to do with security software: it was the final settlement of the long-running antitrust case which focused on browser choice and interoperability. The proposals on interop – which are probably the ones MS is referring to here – were made by MS and accepted by the commission.

     Details here:

     https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2009/12/18/interoperability-the-other-side-of-our-settlement-with-the-european-commission/

     pettter repeated this.