Microsoft pausing the rollout of Spectre and Meltdown patches to AMD systems

Following reports that its Spectre and Meltdown fixes were leaving some AMD systems unbootable, Microsoft has stopped the patches from rolling out to certain devices. 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." See also: Warning: Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre patch is bricking some AMD PCs Microsoft releases PowerShell script to check if your PC is vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre Microsoft issues an emergency fix for Windows 10 to address processor bug There's no… [Continue Reading]