Cool. Do anticheat vendors next.
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I wonder whether solutions like Twincat for industrial PC/PLCs will be affected by this. Interfacing directly with the kernel and replacing the scheduler are, AFAIK, fundamental to making Windows viable for real time use.
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Here’s hoping anticheat goes with them.
Another big area of Windows that uses kernel-level drivers is anti-cheating engines for games. Microsoft has been speaking with game developers about how to reduce the amount of kernel usage, but it’s a more complicated use case as cheaters often have to purposefully tamper with their machine to disable protections and get cheating engines running.
“A lot of [game developers] would love to not have to maintain kernel stuff, and they are very interested in how they do that,” Weston says. “We’ve been talking about the requirements there, and I think we’ll have more to say on that in the near future.” Riot Games told me last year that it’s willing to follow potential Windows security changes and “recede from the kernel space.”
Wouldn’t it have made more sense for them to improve the boot recovery process instead?
If the system fails to boot after a driver update, roll back the update and inform the user on startup.
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Yay! Do anticheat next!
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If it prevents us having another crappy week thanks to the like of Crowdstrike, good.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing else should be in the kernel.
And what about anti-cheat?
While they're at it, how about other drivers?
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Almost. We still have an endless number of anti cheat packages that are allowed to run in the kernel.
now do anticheat
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