On 21/01/2018 23:54, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 21/01/2018 21:49, Paul wrote:
Microsoft is *always* shipping Microcode. At the moment,
it's delivering what I would guess to be Nov 2017 or
so microcode. Not Jan 8, 2018 microcode. Linux has
already delivered Jan 8, 2018 microcode. The microcode
file, while called "Linux" on the Intel site, is actually
suitable for *any* OS. Since Intel delivers a copy to
Microsoft directly, no web site delivery is needed. But
for the 500 distros out there, Intel provides microcode
for download, so those people can pick it up.

Then why is everyone saying we need to update our BIOSs?

I pretty sure Steve himself said in the podcast that Microsoft hadn't
updated the microcode in Windows for years.


Sorry, forgot which newsgroup I was in, I mean Steve Gibson of GRC.COM.

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