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That's cute, but I don't know of any EU rule that requires a Windows to give the blue screen of death when a third party kernel module fails.

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It is by design. If the system is allowed to continue even worse things might happen. Such as data corruption.

That's if allowed to continue booting, the correct procure would be on fault, reload without the patch. There are additional measures too that Microsoft could have adopted but this would have required the rewriting of code that goes back to Windows 2000 or earlier.

But that would cost and thus eat into MS's profits.

Oh sorry, I forgot doing that would be the ultimate sin.

This 100%. I could see a fault tolerance threshold where a module has to fail say three times in a row before bring disbled, but the OS should be able to handle failing third party kernel modules.

Absolutely. Here's a rehash in a similar story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41097794

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