Microsoft Patch Alert: August is much, much better than July @ AskWoody

Microsoft Patch Alert: August is much, much better than July

Posted on August 23rd, 2018 at 14:17 woody Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

There are still some well-known (even acknowledged) bugs, and the inanities performed in the name of Meltdown and Spectre continue to boggle my mind.

And, of course, you can’t post any before-and-after performance statistics about the Intel microcode patches.

Computerworld Woody on Windows.

UPDATE: Intel has backed off its ridiculous (and likely unenforceable) gag order. See Paul Alcorn’s article on Tom’s Hardware.

Windows Patches/Security August 2018 Black Tuesday, Intel, Meltdown, Microcode, Spectre

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