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Linking Dot

«A little more than a year before Microsoft’s systems crashed on Friday, creating global chaos in the banking, airline, and emergency service industries, the company pushed back against regulators investigating the risks of a handful of cloud services companies controlling the world’s technological infrastructure, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.»

levernews.com/email/cb96658f-c

The LeverMicrosoft Pushed Back Against Regulators Before System Crash“Regulators should carefully avoid any intervention” the company said in response to a federal probe of security and interoperability risks.

«Microsoft and also dominate the endpoint security market, which ensures cybersecurity for devices like desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. As of 2022, the two companies controlled more than 30 percent of the market.

This consolidation helped allow a simple error to spiral on Friday.»

@linkingdot Resisting commonsense regulation for the sake of resistance seems so common I tend to think of corporate CEOs as large toddlers.

@linkingdot That has literally nothing to do with the totally different company that caused yesterday's problems.