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Antitrust law is no impediment to Microsoft's IT security, EU Commission says

By Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst ( September 4, 2024, 08:33 GMT | Insight) -- An outage of 8.5 million Windows devices in July wasn’t aggravated by EU competition law, the bloc’s top enforcer said, stressing Microsoft was free to “adapt its security infrastructure to respond to threats.” A faulty update by US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike caused an IT outage around the world, but the European Commission has rejected claims that any of its interventions were to blame.An outage of 8.5 million Windows devices in July wasn’t aggravated by EU competition law, the bloc’s top enforcer said, stressing Microsoft was free to “adapt its security infrastructure to respond to threats.”...

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