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Microsoft Pauses Rollout of Spectre and Meltdown Patches To AMD Systems (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the hold-on dept.

Microsoft is suspending patches to guard against Meltdown and Spectre security threats for computers running AMD chipsets after complaints by AMD customers that the software updates froze their machines. From a report: The company is blaming AMD's failure to comply with "the documentation previously provided to Microsoft to develop the Windows operating system mitigations to protect against the chipset vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown." There's no word on when the patches will be fixed, but Microsoft says that it is working with AMD to address the problem.

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  1. Maybe they should test on real hardware by HalAtWork · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It seems like MS could have some sort of lab with various configurations of relatively recent hardware where they can test updates they deem ready for production.

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  2. Why Meldown? by 110010001000 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only commercially available chips susceptible to Meltdown are Intel chips. Why is a Meltdown patch being pused to AMD systems? They aren't affected.

  3. Re:AMD? by Entrope · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, it's really not clear. Maybe that is the implication that Microsoft wants people to draw, but they don't directly say who provided the documentation in question.