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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by jollyllama on Thursday May 01, 2025 @10:12AM (#43857947)
> so theres a temptation to put most of the logic into userland code and then share information with the kernel component- but then it’s dangerous for the same reason that crowdstrike was.

I don't understand, how could crowdstrike have avoided their issues by putting more code in the kernel? Or am I misreading your statement?

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Re:Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Win... by dijit on Thursday May 01, 2025 @10:38AM (#43858279)
The crash was caused by a data parsing issue for the code in the kernel (the heuristics database).

If they had not tried to parse data inside the kernel it would not have been an issue.

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