Microsoft pauses patches for AMD devices after bricking people’s computers

Jan09

by Sindy Cator on January 9, 2018 at 12:05 pm

Microsoft has suspended the release of its fixes for the catastrophic Meltdown and Spectre bugs, after they reportedly bricked computers running AMDs processors. Certain customers who installed Microsoft’s fix for the scary CPU bug found their PCs unable to boot. The software giant has confirmed the existence of the problem, and is laying the blame at AMD’s door. According to Microsoft, AMD’s shonky documentation is at fault, with the company saying: “Microsoft has reports of customers with some AMD devices getting into an unbootable state after installing recent Windows operating system security updates. After investigating, Microsoft has determined that some…