This appears to be my experience too. I'm checking a few VMs and they are showing as missing hw support. Do note that Microsoft appears to have updated their d

This appears to be my experience too. I'm checking a few VMs and they are showing as missing hw support. Do note that Microsoft appears to have updated their doc in the last day or so. They are now saying that three registry settings need to be set (instead of 2 previously). reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverrideMask /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Virtualization" /v MinVmVersionForCpuBasedMitigations /t REG_SZ /d "1.0" /f Some quick Googling seems to indicate that Windows has the ability to update microcode. http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/how-to-update-microcode-from-windows.787152/ http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/how-to-update-microc... Maybe this will happen with a later update from Microsoft as I'm doubtful that BIOS updates will happen with at least one of my systems.