There have been many more updates since (for instance the first article you linked was from 01/10/18): January 29th Microsoft had to revert the Intel patch dis

There have been many more updates since (for instance the first article you linked was from 01/10/18): January 29th Microsoft had to revert the Intel patch discribed: https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-emergency-patch-microsofts-new-update-kills-off-intels-spectre-fix/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-emergency-patch-micros... There's also implementations in March for the Spectre variant 2: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-windows-patch-skylake-spectre-variant-2/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-windows-pa... There's much more in here.