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Microsoft issues update to disable Intel's buggy Spectre patch

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This is commonly being seen across many Operating System (OS) vendors, not just Microsoft and not just for AMD chips, either.

What is happening is that the code passed down from chip makers is pretty tough to implement and due to the nature of the disaster that implementation often isn't getting beta tested very long at all and resultantly, widely. The more widely something is beta tested the greater the chances that the new code will be guaranteed to work across different kinds of users with different scenarios.

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English is a bit buggy also... "prevented computers to reboot unexpectedly"?

Must be "caused computers to reboot unexpectedly", because "prevented computers from rebooting unexpectedly" doesn't make sense.

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Must be "caused computers to reboot unexpectedly", because "prevented computers from rebooting unexpectedly" doesn't make sense.

Why doesn't it make sense? You don't want your computer to suddenly reboot while you're using it.

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And older CPUs will never get a patch. Intel says 5 yrs of support for a CPU. Much of the world only uses older CPUs due to costs.

Like some people are good under timeline pressures, it appears that some companies are as well. And others, are not, cough, Intel.

We've been lucky across the 30-ish Intel systems here. None seem to be impacted by reboots. But we don't run Windows or OSX, so we've come to expect extreme stability with months of uptime.

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And older CPUs will never get a patch. Intel says 5 yrs of support for a CPU. Much of the world only uses older CPUs due to costs.

Older CPUs will too, just lower down on the priority list:

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/security-first-pledge/

1. Customer-First Urgency: By Jan. 15, we will have issued updates for at least 90 percent of Intel CPUs introduced in the past five years, with updates for the remainder of these CPUs available by the end of January. We will then focus on issuing updates for older products as prioritized by our customers.

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