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I can't imagine gaming software being affected at all, unless MS does a ton of cracking down (and would still probably give hooks for gaming since they have gaming companies in their umbrella).

No corporate org is gonna bat an eye at Riot's anti-cheat practices, because they aren't installing LoL on their line of business machines anyway.




Until the malware bring their own compromised signed anti cheat driver on their own, like what happened with Genshin Impact anti cheat mhyprot2


Right, MS just paid $75e9 for a company whose main products are competitive multiplayer games. They are never going to be incentivized to compromise that sector by limiting what anti-cheat they can do.


That's 7.5e10 USD in SI.


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> because they aren't installing LoL on their line of business machines anyway

But if their business is incompatible with strict software whitelisting, their employees might...




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