Microsoft confirms that Spectre updates will slow older PCs
January 9th, 2018
Microsoft has begun pushing patches that fix the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, two recently-revealed processor-level security flaws that affect almost all computers and mobile devices. Because the security vulnerabilities take advantage of processor-level code, patching the flaws necessarily means slowing down the processors. For modern Windows 10 PCs, the differences won’t be huge. But according …
