Microsoft's fix for 'data damage' risk hits PC performance Microsoft has warned that Windows devices with the newest supported processors might be susceptible to data damage, noting the initial fix might have slowed operations down for some. The data damage warning turned up in a support article (KB5017259) and is related to devices supporting the newest Vector Advanced Encryption …
My first thought was a memory (from the 80s) that it was possible to fry some video cards by messing with the refresh rates, and some disk drives by cycling a hammerhead sequence.
There was also the ability to low-level format some (badly designed) hardcards. However that didn't "damaged" them. Just lost data.
*That's* "data damage" - damage done by data. It has to be, since it is fucking impossible to do damage *to* data
I suppose, to be fair to them - and they don't deserve it - the data is only lost if you didn't make a backup. Having to restore from backups is therefore arguably a data damaged and in need of repair situation, and in this day and age Microsoft can fairly assume their users have backups because they should.
Assholes nevertheless.
If the encryption was faulty, then the encrypted backups were faulty. Or even that only the backups were faulty.
Since it's encryption, it's possible that the original fault did encryption which could not be reversed.
(Not this fault, which is only a speed fault)
The original fault was clearly not very widespread, or we would have heard about it before now.
On the one hand, it's Microsoft being Microsoft.
On the other hand, it's Microsoft's problem of being too popular and having too many combinations of hardware and software to support with the cracks becoming too big.
On the other other hand (what can I say, I'm a mutant) it's the modern world where security slows things down (and costs more money). We are forced to suck it up with no hopes that it will ever change.
Is it just me, or, for too many years now, have M$ opertaing systems and their updates merely been sticking plaster, upon sticking plaster, upon sti.... (you get the idea). Is their apparent osbsession with "fun stuff" and "user convenience" to blame perhaps? I appreciate that with the constantly changing variety of hardware available there is no doubt a significant challenge to find a level playing field that fits all. But the thing is that there is very little in life that ever "fits all". Personally I would much rather have less, or indeed no, bells and whistles, but instead a stable, secure platform to work with and that requires the bare minimum of tinkering about with once it is up and running. Perhaps that might be called Win11 Lite - I dunno.
Sick and tired of Microsoft, and its excuses
It all the time.
I should charge Microsoft for the countless hours, that I've had to spend, fixing their erroneous updates etc.
I reckon over the last 10 years, I've spent best part of 4 months sorting their crap out,
perhaps its time to bight the bullet, dump windows, and finally move over to Linux
"Linux is much better."
For most people, an OS is only as good as the software it supports.
Moving to a new OS is tricky enough without having to find replacement apps for every bit of software you need, if even such software was ever developed (as in many cases for many industrial controllers and niche applications). Even if a suitable replacement app exists, you have to relearn how to use it, it has to support all your existing files and play nicely with all the other software you have.
For many people who only need a browser and basic office tools, moving to linux should be fairly easy, otherwise it can get non-trivial very fast.
What is needed is to start teaching kids linux at school alongside or instead of windows
Oddly, the performance hit is not mentioned in the known issues for the May 24 or June 14 emissions for Windows 11 or Windows Server 2022, but at least Microsoft has come clean now, meaning those wondering why that server or laptop was running slow have an answer.
The reason was running slow is always Windows, I'm sure people are beyond caring exactly which bit.
Well it seems since Microsoft has not yet issued an official list, you will only experience the performance hit if you are using Intel CPUs starting from the 10th Gen Ice Lake 10nm mobile chips which used the new Sunny Cove design and the first to implement VAES.
With AMD, the Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 series desktop SKUs as well as Ryzen 5000 mobile parts are hit.
[Sources: https://windowsreport.com/kb5017259/ &
https://www.neowin.net/news/beware-windows-11-ready-cpus-with-vaes-susceptible-to-data-damage-full-cpu-list-here/ ]
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My PC had one Intel 486 processor, 33MHz clock, 4MB memory, Windows 3.11, MS-DOS 5.
It performed perfectly for my needs. Upgrades meant MS-DOS 3.3 to 5, or MS-DOS 5 to 6.....once in a blue moon!!
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My current laptop has one Intel N5000 chip, four Pentium CPU processors, 1.1Ghz clock, 4GB memory.......
.......and the experts in Redmond are talking about "slowing down" after some patch upgrade or another?
Please......get a grip!! Is there something causing brain damage in Redmond, WA??
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