Coming to a Windows Update near You
Ah, I love the smell of hacked computers in the morning. It smells like exploitation. |
I smell trouble. Something about kernel mode and the HAL in particular is bugging me regarding those chipset modifications ... and I'm just hoping that your fix doesn't adversely affect my motherboard.
You see, Microsoft has a well defined history of half ass approaches to everything, as evidenced by the hijack of windows 8 users to windows 10 all over the place WAY before it was ready; and I just don't trust them for a long time now.
The dual route mechanism for updating the microcode and the requirement for a "compatible" antivirus package are further hitches which may or may not affect the transition to Spectre variant 2 protection.
Luckily the skylake processor line is their initial test case so at least I won't have to be a guinea pig in the process.
Sometimes I long for the good ole CLI MS-DOS days and that simpler place in time. Maybe that's why I've clung to unix all these years.
While I indeed hope that nobody has "risen to their level of incompetence" I just have a number of trepidations regarding microcode uploads during a live update session.
It's all too anxiety provoking when I ponder the possibilities for failure. Maybe they can just burn a recovery DVD up front.