the EU that normie-baiters (such as Asmongold) love is partially responsible.

Just because a complaint was filed doesn't actually mean eurocrats would have sided with Symantec. Though Microsoft certainly wouldn't have helped their case given Live OneCare was advertised within windows.

And that YCombinator poster is sorta wrong, what Microsoft intended to prevent was AV makers from patching(or rather brain surgery while being awake) the Windows kernel(yes they were THAT intrusive) not remove kernel drivers altogether. Instead after the complaint MS just extended the filtering APIs(which are more useful in kernel mode rather than user mode if accessible and are a more cooperative way of doing things) and maintained KPP(hell VBS is an offshoot of it by using virtualization to further prevent unauthorized patching)

the EU that normie-baiters (such as Asmongold) love is partially responsible.

Just because a complaint was filed doesn't actually mean eurocrats would have sided with Symantec. Though Microsoft certainly wouldn't have helped their case given Live OneCare was advertised within windows.

And that YCombinator poster is sorta wrong, what Microsoft intended to prevent was AV makers from patching the Windows kernel(yes they were THAT intrusive) not remove kernel drivers altogether. Instead after the complaint MS just extended the filtering APIs(which are more useful in kernel mode rather than user mode if accessible and are a more cooperative way of doing things) and maintained KPP(hell VBS is an offshoot of it by using virtualization to further prevent unauthorized patching)