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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 10 2018, @01:28PM   Printer-friendly
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Microsoft's 'Meltdown' updates are reportedly bricking AMD PCs

Following reports of unbootable machines, Microsoft has halted updates of its Meltdown and Spectre security patches for AMD computers, according to a support note spotted by the Verge. It made the move after numerous complaints from users who installed the patch and then couldn't get past the Windows 10 splash screen. "To prevent AMD customers from getting into an unbootable state, Microsoft will temporarily pause sending the following Windows operating system updates to devices with impacted AMD processors," it wrote.

[...] "After investigating, Microsoft has determined that some AMD chipsets do not conform to the documentation previously provided to Microsoft to develop the Windows operating system mitigations to protect against the chipset vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown," the company said.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @04:03PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @04:03PM (#620497)

    > Sounds like Microsoft skimped on the testing.

    Sounds like Microsoft did the usual and let their users do the testing.

  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday January 10 2018, @04:20PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @04:20PM (#620501)

    Sounds like Microsoft did the usual and let their users do the testing.

    Yes, which is exactly what they *should* do. Why should MS spend one red cent on testing? That'll just detract from their bottom line. Instead, they can let their users deal with any problems in the code, which costs far less. If the users don't like it, they can stop using MS software, but they never do that, so MS might as well push the testing onto them.