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Related, I just shared that Microsoft is going to make the mitigations for Windows Server optional https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108356 https://news.yc
by AaronFriel 9y ago
Related, I just shared that Microsoft is going to make the mitigations for Windows Server optional https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108356
This should make it very clear that other vendors downplaying the performance impact were misleading users.
- merb 9y agoyep they even have a KB article where they said where the fix is NECESSARY and where it might be ok to not install it: > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4072698/windows-server-guidance-to-protect-against-the-speculative-execution https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4072698/windows-ser... Part: "Enabling protections on the server" it even has a registry key to enable/disable it. Basically they say that: > Your server is at increased risk if it is in one of the following categories: > > Hyper-V hosts > Remote Desktop Services Hosts (RDSH) > For physical hosts or virtual machines that are running untrusted code such as containers or > untrusted extensions for database, untrusted web content or workloads that run code that is > provided from external sources.