Microsoft's emergency Windows Meltdown patch may be incompatible with your PC

As you’ll have read, two massive security bugs affecting millions of Intel, AMD and ARM processors have been uncovered. Codenamed Meltdown and Spectre, these are serious vulnerabilities, but the good news is the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft have rushed out patches to address them. Microsoft pushed out a rare, off-schedule emergency fix for Windows 10 (with fixes for Windows 7 and 8.x expected shortly), but the bad news is it may not be compatible with your system. SEE ALSO: Intel chips have a huge security flaw, and the fix will slow down Windows and Linux machines The problem… [Continue Reading]