>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.”

I hope it spreads to anti cheats as well.

Just googled their share price and they are 34% higher than they were before the shitstorm they caused.

This whole situation now feels like too little, too late. We currently have a vast market of "security" software built on top of their platform, and everyone is compelled to use it, often due to compliance requirements. Now, Microsoft has to walk on thin ice by restricting these "snake oil" vendors without getting into trouble for anticompetitive behavior by restricting a market on top of their platform that should have never existed in the first place.

Fuck these AntiVirus software vendors, they are just as much scum as the baddies are. What once was just Norton, today is everyone.

I'm glad that they're getting less access to the system, even if it's for another reason.