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Microsoft Patch Alert: August is much, much better than July
Posted on August 23rd, 2018 at 14:17 Comment on the AskWoody LoungeThere 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.
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