Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Microsoft's build 18362.356 (KB4515384) for its Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903) rolled out on Tuesday with security improvements for Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, networking tech and input devices – and a CPU usage fix that, for some, has broken desktop search.
The security tweaks address a variety of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities known as microarchitecture data sampling (MDS) for 32-bit x86 versions of Windows. Intel dealt with the CVEs at issue – CVE-2019-11091, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130 – in May.
The update, released concurrently with Build 17763.737 for the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (v1809), also includes security enhancements for assorted Windows components.
Microsoft says its update fixes a high CPU usage problem associated with SearchUI.exe reported by a small number of users who disabled searching the web via Windows Desktop Search.
But its fix has nixed SearchUI.exe for some. Those griping claim SearchUI.exe, a part of Cortana, won't launch after installing KB4515384.
"What a mess – I had the original issue with SearchUI.exe and it sending my CPU to unparalleled heights and showing a big black pane of nothing," wrote Reddit user cyrenaic101 in a complaint thread. "So I uninstalled that turd. And then here comes the 'fix' KB4515384. Search completely broken..."
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @08:26PM (2 children)
Sure... They're sending more people to use Linux, that's a step in the right direction.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @08:58PM
You should say correctly Microsoft Linux/GNU, and never forget to mention its kernel development repository is hosted on Microsoft GitHub.
(Score: 2) by DeVilla on Thursday September 19 2019, @10:10PM
Fortunately for Microsoft, the first things those users will probably see is Gnome3 which will have them them crawling back to Windows in despair.